Tokyo Tower lights up in celebration of Ohtani MVP award

oh, what fun!!!!!

Congrats Otani

That's a bit much, isn't it?

Congratulations! Amazing achievement for the future GOAT.

Ohtani did more to light up Iwate and the Tohoku area than Tokyo Tower or the Tokyo Olympics.

Congrats, a good example for all the upcoming Baseball Jr. players, and thank you for that.

Japan's showa bosses favorite sport.

Bread and circus for dying country politically, economically, socially.

Deserve the recognition as it is not that easy to achieve. Congratulation Ohtani......

Also, Japan Post Co said Friday it will begin selling Ohtani stamp sets.

A new cash cow has been found and ready to be milked.

Money is god.

made with public taxes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! unbelievable!

Ridiculous waste of energy and money. For some silly patriotism.

Has to be lit up every night anyway so how is this increasing the cost?

Congratulations to Ohtani-san!

Go go Ohtani and go go Japan!

I don’t understand half of the words in this article :) but beautiful illumination is always welcomed.

Because his Japanese some people don't want to recognize his accomplishment and achievement.

You see this often when it comes to Japanese and Asians achievements.

You see this often when it comes to Japanese and Asians achievements.

There are always naysayers and cranks but to say that people don’t want to recognize Otani’s achievements in baseball because he is Asian/Japanese is not a true statement in the least. Otani won the award. He won it in a non Asian, multi-racial country. He won it in a sports league based outside of Asia. The only one that appears hung up on the race angel is ReasonandWisdomNippon. There are only a limited number of foreign players even allowed to play baseball in Japan and most other Asian countries and none have won an MVP award as far as I know.

Do yourself a favor and enjoy the accomplishments of a very talented athlete without the made up negativism.