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Who is Shohei Ohtani’s wife?

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In February 2024 Japanese baseball player Shohei Ohtani announced his marriage to Mamiko Tanaka, a former professional Japanese basketball player. Tanaka played collegiate basketball for Waseda University in Tokyo before joining the Women’s Japan Basketball League in 2019. She played power forward for the Fujitsu Red Wave for four years and retired in 2023. The couple had a daughter in April 2025 and a son in June 2026.