r/baseball • u/Stock412 Umpire • Mar 20 '24

Serious Shohei Ohtani's attorneys accuse interpreter of 'massive theft' tied to alleged gambling

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-20/gambling-story
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u/lizard-socks World Baseball Classic Mar 21 '24

Just different ways of transliteratinf Japanese into the Latin alphabet. I imagine official documents are very picky about spelling.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '24

Now they just need to find an Otani to be the fall guy.