Check out Takumi’s NEW English youtube channel🎵

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Yokohama Pacifico

Thank you very much!

Kaoru Nakajima's Birthday Rally

Thank you so much!

Baseball has been so fun

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🇯🇵 Samurai Japan's Full Schedule — If They Advance to the Finals

① First Round (Tokyo) 📍 Tokyo Dome　📅 March 5–10 Japan plays in Pool C (Japan, South Korea, Australia, Czech Republic, Taiwan) in a round-robin format. The top 2 teams advance to the quarterfinals. (2026 WBC)

Japan's key matchups:

March 6　Japan vs. Taiwan
March 7　Japan vs. South Korea
After that　Australia / Czech Republic, etc.

👉 Clear this round → travel to the United States

② Quarterfinals 📍 loanDepot Park 📅 March 15 (Japan time)

Pool C top teams face
Pool D (Dominican Republic, Venezuela, etc.)

Japan plays March 15 (Samurai Japan Official Site)

③ Semifinals 📍 loanDepot Park 📅 March 16 or 17 The world's top 4 teams. Win here → advance to the Finals.(Samurai Japan Official Site)

④ Finals (World Championship) 📍 loanDepot Park 📅 March 18 (Japan time) The world champion is decided here.(Samurai Japan Official Site)

⚾ The Flow at a Glance Tokyo → Miami

3/5–3/10    Tokyo Dome
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3/15        Quarterfinals (Miami)
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3/16–17     Semifinals (Miami)
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3/18        Finals (Miami)

⚾ 2026 WBC "Championship Contender Rankings"

Combining multiple power rankings, odds, and expert predictions, the 2026 WBC title picture looks like this:

🏆 Championship Contender Rankings (2026 WBC)

1st 🇺🇸 USA

Massive MLB star participation
Key players: Aaron Judge, Paul Skenes, Tarik Skubal
Championship odds: approx. -110 (favorite) (ESPN.com)

👉 Top MLB talent on both offense and defense — the deepest roster in the field

2nd 🇯🇵 Japan (Samurai Japan)

Defending champions (2023)
Key players: Shohei Ohtani, Seiya Suzuki, Masataka Yoshida
Some MLB.com power rankings actually rank Japan #1 (Reuters Japan)

3rd 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic

MLB star-studded lineup: Juan Soto, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Fernando Tatis Jr.

👉 Said to be the most powerful batting lineup in tournament history (Goal.com)

4th 🇻🇪 Venezuela

Key star: Ronald Acuña Jr.
Odds: approx. +900

👉 Extremely strong offensive firepower (ESPN.com)

5th 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico

Traditional powerhouse
Runner-up in 2013 and 2017
However, absences of Francisco Lindor, Carlos Correa, and other key players lower their outlook somewhat (The Sun)

⚾ The Dream Finals Matchup

Most predictions point to: 🇺🇸 USA vs. 🇯🇵 Japan as the most likely Finals matchup.

Why:

Most MLB stars: USA
Team cohesion: Japan

💡 An Interesting Fact WBC champions to date:

🇯🇵 Japan — 3 times
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic — 1 time
🇺🇸 USA — 1 time

The title has essentially rotated among these three nations. (MLB.com)

I tried asking CHAT GPT "What if you made a clone of yourself?"

"Making a clone of yourself" has three meanings. (Scientific clone / AI clone / Thought clone)

Considering Takumi-san's work (speaking, coaching, content creation), the ones that hold real practical value are ② and ③.

① Biological Clone (a literal clone)

① Biologival Clone (a literal clone)

This is a scientific clone. The method is somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT).

Process:

Extract your own cells
Remove the nucleus from an egg cell
Insert your own DNA
Create an embryo
Transfer to a surrogate

Result → A genetically identical individual

However, important points:

Human cloning is prohibited (worldwide)
Personality and memories are not copied
It is simply "a person with the same genes"

In other words — it does not become a copy of you.

② AI Clone (the real deal right now)

This is a clone that copies your "thinking, way of speaking, and knowledge."

Method

Step 1 Gather all of your content:

Books
Lectures
Audio
Notes
Thought journals
Q&A

Step 2 Train an AI on it. Available tools:

ChatGPT Custom GPT
NotebookLM
Claude Projects
Langchain + RAG

Step 3 Define the personality. Example:

Define the personality. Example:

You are Takumi Yamazaki.

You are a speaker and a coach.

Characteristics:
· Future-oriented
· High level of abstraction
· Warm
· Intuitive
· Simple language

And so — AI Takumi Yamazaki is born.

What it can do:

Answer questions
Coaching
Writing lecture scripts
Writing books
Seminar support

In other words: "A state where 10,000 Takumi-sans exist"

③ Thought Clone (the most powerful)

This is about multiplying people who operate with the same thinking as you.

Historically successful examples:

Konosuke Matsushita
Kazuo Inamori
Napoleon Hill

Method

1

Put your thinking into words.

Examples

- Amazing things happen effortlessly
- Your core assumptions determine your life
- Dreams become reality when you picture them

2

Turn it into a framework

Example

Dream
↓
Core Assumption
↓
Action
↓
Reality

3

Education

Books
Courses
Community

The result: 1,000 people thinking like Takumi are born.

An interesting fact

Actually, the most successful clones in history are religions.

Examples:

Christ
Buddha
Confucius

They created hundreds of millions of thought clones.

The Clone that suits you best

Recommended: AI × Thought Clone

In other words:

AI Takumi Yamazaki

×
Disciples
×
Community

The result: Takumi-san multiplies across the world.

If you're interested, there's a fascinating idea here.

"The AI Clone Plan to Create 1,000 Takumi Yamazakis"

It can actually be built in 3 steps.

If you'd like, I'll write out the blueprint. (This is quite revolutionary.) 🚀

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Looking at Takumi-san's work (speaking, coaching, books, online salon, etc.), the AI clone becomes most powerful when designed not as a "body double" but as "a device that spreads the philosophy of his other self."