Sanriku Railway Forms Baseball Team In Disaster-Hit Town

TOKYO, JAPAN - NOVEMBER 06: Major league pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma (3rd L) and Sanriku Railway Co. President Masahiko Mochizuki (4th L) attend a news conference to announce the formation of the Sanriku Tetsudo Kit Dreams amateur baseball team on November 6, 2014 in Tokyo, Japan. Sanriku Railway Co. and food giant Nestle Japan Ltd. announced that they have teamed to form an amateur baseball club in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, to invigorate the region still rebounding from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Seattle Mariners pitcher and former Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles standout Hisashi Iwakuma has been tapped to be general manager. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)