Riki Takatou
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Riki Takato is Kainan's coach and a contemporary of Ryonan's Moichi Taoka, who is a year older than him. Both of them have known each other since high school, when Takato was known as the "Rookie from Hell" in his first year. He has been responsible to some degree for the team's dominating the Kanagawa Inter High Tournament for the past 17 years. His training regime is so tough that half the incoming players are weeded out within the first week, and more within the first month. After a year, barely a fifth of the new players remain. In the previous year, Takato also coached the team up to the ...
