if tokyo is a fastball, sapporo is a curveball.th-largest city feels not unlike a laid-back ski village. but this is a baseball town. and this is the home stadium, the sapporo dome. it's here we sat down with ohtani. we broke the ice with a question about what we'd heard was his favorite local fast food. very important question. in & out burger or captain kangaroo burger? >> shohei ohtani ( translated ): captain kangaroo. >> wertheim: better? towering and affable, ohtani is working on his english, but felt more comfortable using a translator during our interview. >> wertheim: i want to ask you about coming to the majors. but should we say, "if," or should we say, "when"? >> ohtani ( translated ): that's a tough one. i mean, nothing is for certain, so, i guess it's "if." >> wertheim: despite that cautious response, ohtani eagerly revealed which major league players he looks most forward to facing- no less than m.v.p. hitter bryce harper and star pitcher clayton kershaw. >> ohtani ( translated ): i watch bryce ha

now, he did stop at a medical facility in sapporo, japan.s from where he is flying towards his family in cincinnati. we're going to try to figure out in the next couple hours what sort of medical attention did he relieve in sapporo, japan. was there any sort of surveillance of him or medical condition taking place? if he had a coma, the north koreans are saying the coma was induced after he was given a sleeping pill because he had botulism. that doesn't make sense. what they would be able to determine if they did a cat scan, say, is whether there is any lingering trauma from a head wound. it's these things that i suspect we're going to see come out in the next couple hours. he's heading home now. the white house, as well as the state department, are claiming credit. they say dennis rodman didn't have anything to do with it. >> he was sentenced to hard labor, not prison. to rex tillerson's point, he didn't mention dennis rodman. i don't know if he's touched on the ground yet. we last saw him in china. he is on his way to north korea for a vis