{"id":120102,"date":"2015-01-16T10:02:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T17:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=120102"},"modified":"2015-01-20T10:27:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T17:27:47","slug":"mayor-kosuke-hagino-world-swimmer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/mayor-kosuke-hagino-world-swimmer-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Of Kosuke Hagino&#8217;s Hometown Praises World Swimmer of the Year Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OYAMA &#8211; The Japanese city of Oyama is certainly proud of its son Kosuke Hagino, and for very good reason. Hagino was Japan&#8217;s most-decorated athlete at the Asian Games last month, and also impressed at the Pan Pacific championships and short course world championships.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor of Oyama, Toshio Okubo, took the time from a busy schedule to pose for photos holding the December 2014 issue of <i>Swimming World Magazine<\/i>, in which Hagino was named as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-swimmers-of-the-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">the first Japanese Male World Swimmer of the Year<\/a>. Okubo is a big sports enthusiast, his staff tells us, and Hagino will likely be putting Oyama under the global microscope very soon. As the Olympics approach, it&#8217;s likely that film crews will begin to descend on the city to document the place where one of the big Olympic medal contenders was born.<\/p>\n<p>Oyama celebrated its 60th anniversary last year, and one of its largest industries is silk production. Okubo posed with his copy of <i>Swimming World Magazine<\/i> while wearing a kimono made of silk from the historic Silk Weaving process called\u00a0&#8220;Honba Yuki Tsumugi.&#8221; Clothing made with this process\u00a0using the local silk producers is made completely by hand, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has deemed it an &#8220;Intangible Cultural Heritage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oyama is only an hour north of Tokyo, and it&#8217;s likely the swimming arena at the 2020 Olympics will be filled with as many of the 165,630\u00a0residents of Oyama as possible to cheer on Hagino.<\/p>\n<p>Click here if you would a copy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/swimshop.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/p\/1342\/swimming-world-december-2014-issue\">December 2014 Issue<\/a> of <em>Swimming World Magazine,<\/em> or visit our Swim Shop to get your <a href=\"http:\/\/swimshop.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/c\/53\/swimming-world\">Total Access subscription<\/a> to Swimming World today.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_120104\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/toshio-okubo-kimono-swimming-world-e1421426832407.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120104\" data-attachment-id=\"120104\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/mayor-kosuke-hagino-world-swimmer-of-the-year\/toshio-okubo-kimono-swimming-world\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/toshio-okubo-kimono-swimming-world-e1421426832407.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1500,1000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;EX-ZS150&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1420476121&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.24&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.02&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"toshio-okubo-kimono-swimming-world\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Toshio Okubo holds Swimming World Magazine with Kosuke Hagino on cover&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: Satoko Tanabe&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/toshio-okubo-kimono-swimming-world-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/toshio-okubo-kimono-swimming-world-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120104\" src=\"http:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/toshio-okubo-kimono-swimming-world-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"Toshio Okubo holds Swimming World Magazine with Kosuke Hagino on cover\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-120104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: Satoko Tanabe<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OYAMA &#8211; The Japanese city of Oyama is certainly proud of its son Kosuke Hagino, and for very good reason. 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