It’s a wild ending for one of the highest-profile pairings in the translation/interpretation world.
For the last few years, it’s been hard to think of a sweeter gig in the translation/interpretation field than Ippei Mizuhara’s job. Mizuhara has been in the business for a long time, but a key turning point in his career came in 2013, when he was working as an interpreter for a foreign player with Japanese professional baseball’s Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. That’s when Mizuhara happened to meet the Fighters’ highly anticipated rookie, a teenager named Shohei Ohtani.
Ohtani would become an instant all-star, and a few years later a Japanese Series champion. That success got him a ticket to head to the U.S. and play in Major…
