Tokyo Photo Gallery

The opening ceremony of the WCBF Friendship Games ’09 Tokyo, welcoming children’s baseball teams from Tokyo and five countries and regions including Canada and Germany, was held at Ota Stadium on July 29. Receiving batting instructions from Sadaharu Oh, Chairman of the World Children’s Baseball Foundation, the host organization, Governor Ishihara faced off the battery of Choji Murata (former professional pitcher and executive director of WCBF) and Atsuya Furuta (former professional catcher and a Tokyo 2016 Bid Ambassador).

Photo: Governor Ishihara swinging the bat at the opening ceremony