00:00If anybody knows about going to great lengths to realize a dream, it's the five Japanese-born players.
00:09Shota Imanaga, Seiya Suzuki, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Roki Sasaki, and of course, Shohei Otati,
00:18are returning to play in a major league game in front of their nation's fans for the first time.
00:23All of Japan will say they were at this game.
00:26This Tokyo series is a way to showcase what baseball means to Japan.
00:32The game of baseball lends itself to Japanese culture.
00:36You have all these individual people working in concert together.
00:40It's eye-opening how crazy fans could be.
00:44People want to experience the way the stadium gets into it.
00:48You're going to have more kids trying to emulate these Japanese players,
00:54showing the example of this can be a dream for you if you want it.
01:00This is the start of a journey for our team.
01:03We get to honor our teammates by coming to their home country.
01:08Japan has taken baseball and recreated it in its own image.
01:12Seiya Suzuki!
01:17Homecoming, the Tokyo series, premieres March 27th on the CNN app.
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