Shohei Ohtani is going to save the newspaper industry in Japan - singlehandedly.
The Japanese and Los Angeles Dodgers superstar won his third Most Valuable Player award, this time picking up his first MVP in the National League. He'd already won two in the American League - in 2021 and 2023 - playing with the Los Angeles Angels.
The award triggered Japanese newspapers to print special editions, given out on Friday morning in central Tokyo. Japan is 14 hours ahead of New York and the east coast of the United States.
"Every year Ohtani has set records that probably no one else can break," Yoshio Inoue, a student, said while getting his copy.
This comes less than a month after Ohtani and the Dodgers won the World Series, which also prompted the special editions that are fought over as collectors' items.
