Mizuhara’s father has run a bar and other establishments in LA for a long time.

“Shohei Ohtani is in big trouble. Who would have thought that the interpreter would do something like that?”

On the night of the 21st, at a restaurant in Shibuya, Tokyo, which is also very popular with foreign tourists, a young man sitting next to me was speaking in American-accented English to an elderly woman and her companion, a young man. Similar conversations must have taken place in living rooms and social gatherings around the world.

The series of allegations against Ippei Mizuhara, the “world’s best former interpreter,” are detailed in #1. In 1991, when his father got a job as a chef in Los Angeles, he moved with his family from Hokkaido and graduated from the prestigious University of California, Riverside.

Having spent most of his school-age years in Los Angeles, there is no doubt about his English conversation skills, and it would be more accurate to describe him as a Japanese-American with native-level Japanese. How is this “incident” viewed in a Japanese restaurant in Los Angeles, close to the environment in which Mizuhara grew up?

“I know about Mizuhara-san’s problem. However, the investigation authorities will make a decision, so we won’t be talking about it. I only found out about Mizuhara-san when they were on TV together when the news of Ohtani’s marriage was reported recently.

He may be famous, but I don’t think he’s that famous that everyone knows about him. Either way, I hope this issue doesn’t have a negative impact on Otani.” (A waiter at a Japanese restaurant where you can also enjoy authentic soba noodles)

Perhaps because Ohtani was with the unpopular Angels, the interpreter Mizuhara is not as well-known as he is in Japan. The owner of a Japanese restaurant serving authentic sushi also had this reaction.

Gallery A“Ippei has never been here before, but his father has been running izakayas and other establishments in Los Angeles for a long time, so I think many people in the restaurant industry know him.

However, I don’t know anything about Ippei’s personality, and there are no rumors that he was a gambling addict. Many of our employees are Dodgers fans, so we were all shocked to see the news.”