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Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtanis native Japan expressed elation, envy and expectations Thursday after the surprise news the Major League Baseball player has tied the knot with a Japanese woman. I am curious who she might be, but Im sure shes a good person if Ohtani has chosen her. I hope theyll be very happy, said Hinako Kon, 30, in Sapporo, Hokkaido. She said she watched Ohtani many times when he played for the Pacific Leagues Hokkaido-based Nippon Ham Fighters from 2013 to 2017. News of the union came from Ohtanis Instagram, in a brief post in which he wrote he has begun a ne