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The Japan News/Yomiuri
The Japan News/Yomiuri
Lifestyle
Hiroaki Tagami / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer

Yusuke Azuma Influential teenage game-changer

Teenage video game trainer Yusuke Azuma (Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

At the tender age of 18, Yusuke Azuma joined baseball star Shohei Ohtani and other notables on Forbes Japan magazine's "30 Under 30" list of influential young people for 2021. Azuma currently juggles life as a high school student with a job as a professional video game trainer.

"My earliest memory is playing 'Mine Sweeper' on my father's computer when I was around 2," Azuma said, referring to his first encounter with a computer game. Once he got a bit older, he began playing online and befriending people drawn from different generations and various walks of life.

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