and taniguchi made his own mark. he is a company vice president managing five branches. >> translator: my father's mandate to put my all into everything has been an important lesson in my career. ichiro is always ready to go and prepares himself for the next day's game even before going to bed and gets up early. >> reporter: these days taniguchi visits the batting center with his son who's a junior high school student. they head straight for batting box number 8. >> translator: swing away. >> reporter: like father, like son. and like another man who got his start here. nhk world, nagoya. >>> people in northern vietnam are deal wigtss a powerful storm. our meteorologist robert speta joins us with the details. >> this is moving off toward the west. it did roll over hainan, back off towards the gulf of tonkin. you have to remember this is very warm sea surface temperatures in this area. as it moved over it intensified up to that severe tropical storm, just shy of typhoon status. still rather potent coming ashore here. l