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My commitment as a nonfiction writer who can only see you once in a while
Takano: I understand that you once interviewed Mr. Igarashi, an alumnus of the Yakult Swallows, who is also with us today. As a non-fiction writer, from what perspective do you usually cover baseball?
Hasegawa: Yes, I do. I am not in the position of a newspaper reporter or a watchdog who is always with the players, so I really only meet them occasionally.
So I leave the real-time information to newspapers, radio, and TV, and try to dig deeper by asking questions that I can only ask when I have time, such as, “How was that scene in the game?
Takano: I see. I guess that’s because we don’t see each other every day.
Now, here, I asked Mr. Hasegawa to choose a song that he would like everyone to listen to together on the radio at this time.
Hasegawa: I chose the song I wanted to listen to, but I chose “From the ceiling with love,” the debut song by a band called ANGIE, which broke through in Fukuoka in the 1980s and 1990s.
Takano: Why did you choose this song?
Hasegawa: I really liked the lyrics of the main vocalist of ANGIE, Kanosuke Mito, and I wanted to be someone who could write lyrics like that.
