Shohei Ohtani’s hometown creates rice paddy art and manhole cover in his honour

Shohei Ohtani’s hometown creates rice paddy art and manhole cover in his honour

World-famous baseball player gets a big accolade in Japan… with his beloved dog. Every year in Japan, various rice fields around the country are transformed into massive “Rice Paddy Art” (or “tambo art,” as it’s known in Japanese), where different varieties of rice are planted in precise positions to create vast, colourful murals. This summer, one particularly eye-catching design has cropped up in Iwate Prefecture — a larger-than-life image of M…