{"id":141164,"date":"2021-06-18T13:34:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T04:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=141164&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-06-18T13:34:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T04:34:40","slug":"three-hawks-players-join-japans-olympic-team","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/three-hawks-players-join-japans-olympic-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Hawks Players Join Japan\u2019s Olympic Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Samurai Japan announced the inclusion of three Softbank Hawks players to its Tokyo 2020 team. Takuya Kai (catcher\/uniform number 10,)\u00a0 Yuki Yanagita (outfielder\/uniform number 9,) and Ryoya Kurihara (outfielder\/uniform number 31) will play in the Olympic games from July 28. For 24-year-old Kurihara, it will be his first time on the national team. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20210616\/5010012133.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.japan-baseball.jp\/jp\/news\/press\/20210616_3.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Samurai Japan Official Web<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-141165\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/olympic-baseball.jpeg?resize=960%2C540&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/olympic-baseball.jpeg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/olympic-baseball.jpeg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/olympic-baseball.jpeg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/>Photo by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samuraijapan_pr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Samurai Japan Official Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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Takuya Kai (catcher\/uniform number 10,)\u00a0 Yuki Yanagita (outfielder\/uniform number 9,) and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":141165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-141164","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-sports","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/141164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}