Ben Mitsuyoshi (second from left) was entertained by the Mazda Motors CEO in Hiroshima. Ben was playing professional baseball with the Hiroshima Carps at the time.
Ben Mitsuyoshi (center) with teammates, Howard and Harvey Zenemira (from Fresno, California), played on the 1953 Hiroshima Carps professional baseball team in Japan's Central League in 1953.
Professional Japanese baseball players pictured in a Japanese sports magazine in 1954. One of them, Makato Kozury, was considered the "Baba Ruth of Japan" at the time.
Hasebe family in Ivanhoe, California, November 1968. Pictured (left to right) are: Ikuko Hasebe (Micheal's mother), Sawano Yamashita (Aiko Hasebe's mother), Steven Hasebe, Randall Hasebe and Aiko.
Michael Hasebe (on the left) is pictured with the 1976 Visalia Buddhist Church YBA basketball team. His eldest son, Randall, is pictured in the front row, left.
Ben Mitsuyoshi (center) with teammates, Howard and Harvey Zenemira (from Fresno, California), played on the 1953 Hiroshima Carps professional baseball team in Japan's Central League in 1953.