Editing Ichiro Suzuki (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Suzuki Ichirō and his wife Yumiko.jpg|thumb|Suzuki and his wife Yumiko at the [[:en:2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|2009 Red Carpet All-Star Parade]]]]
He has an elder brother, Kazuyasu Suzuki.<ref name="Aretha2016">{{cite book|author=David Aretha|title=Ichiro Suzuki: Baseball's Most Valuable Player|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OgpiDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA16|date=15 July 2016|publisher=Enslow Publishing, LLC|isbn=978-0-7660-7902-1|pages=16–}}</ref>

Suzuki married {{Nihongo|Yumiko Fukushima|[[:ja:福島弓子|福島弓子]]|Fukushima Yumiko}}, a former [[Tokyo Broadcasting System|TBS TV]] announcer,<ref>{{cite news|last1=D'Angelo|first1=Tom|title=Ichiro Suzuki creates buzz like no other player in Marlins history|url=http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/sports/baseball/ichiro-suzuki-creates-buzz-like-no-other-player-in/nkW3m/|access-date=12 April 2016|work=Palm Beach Post|date=14 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424172636/http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/sports/baseball/ichiro-suzuki-creates-buzz-like-no-other-player-in/nkW3m/|archive-date=24 April 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> on 3 December 1999,<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 8, 2016 |title=MLB: Ichiro Suzuki gets 3,000th career hit in major leagues |url=http://mainichi.jp/english/graphs/20160808/hpe/00m/0sp/001000g/5 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211081126/http://mainichi.jp/english/graphs/20160808/hpe/00m/0sp/001000g/5 |archive-date=11 February 2017 |access-date=10 February 2017 |website=The Mainichi}}</ref> at a small church in [[Santa Monica, California]]. {{As of|2019}}, they had a pet dog ([[Shiba Inu]]) named Ikkyu,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Miller|first1=Doug|title=Ichiro sets Mariners hit-streak record|url=http://m.mlb.com/news/article/5112264/|access-date=12 April 2016|website=MLB.com|date=2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160423035918/http://m.mlb.com/news/article/5112264/|archive-date=23 April 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Baseball: Ichiro's retirement press conference, as it happened |url=https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2019/03/9df9f7cbd5e3-baseball-ichiros-retirement-press-conference-as-it-happened.html |access-date=2025-03-17 |website=Kyodo News+}}</ref> a combination of the first character in each of his and his wife's first names. The couple resided in [[Issaquah, Washington]], during the season while he played in Seattle and in [[Greenwich, Connecticut]], while he played for the Yankees. They resided in [[Miami Beach, Florida|Miami Beach]] during seasons with the Marlins.<ref name=Tomlinson/>

[[File:Ichiroll.jpg|250px|thumb|The "Ichiroll", a menu item once offered at [[Safeco Field|T-Mobile Park]] named after Ichiro Suzuki]]
On 18 March 2011, Suzuki donated [[Japanese yen|¥]]100 million ($1.25 million) to the [[Japanese Red Cross]] for [[2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami|earthquake and tsunami]] [[Humanitarian response to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami|relief efforts]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 March 2011 |title=Report: Ichiro Suzuki donates 100M yen |url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=6234412 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110320004613/http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=6234412 |archive-date=20 March 2011 |access-date=19 March 2011 |work=[[ESPN.com]]|agency=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref>

Suzuki's father, Nobuyuki, handled Ichiro's finances early in his career<ref name="internal">{{cite news|last1=Thompson|first1=Wright|title=Ichiro's return to Seattle won't resolve the battle raging within him|url=https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/22624561/ichiro-suzuki-return-seattle-mariners-resolve-internal-battle|access-date=7 March 2018|work=[[ESPN.com]]|publisher=[[ESPN]]|date=7 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180307185054/http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/22624561/ichiro-suzuki-return-seattle-mariners-resolve-internal-battle|archive-date=7 March 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> until, in 2002, due to Nobuyuki underreporting Ichiro's income, Ichiro was saddled with a significant bill for unpaid taxes.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ichiro may owe $168,000 in taxes|url=https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Ichiro-may-owe-168-000-in-taxes-1104404.php|access-date=7 March 2018|work=[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]|date=31 December 2002|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180308103919/https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Ichiro-may-owe-168-000-in-taxes-1104404.php|archive-date=8 March 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> The scandal cost Ichiro an undisclosed amount of money and caused him embarrassment. This incident, along with Nobuyuki's relentless training and unforgiving attitude toward his son, caused their relationship to collapse.<ref name="internal" /> Subsequently, Ichiro's finances have been looked after by his wife Yumiko.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/22624561/ichiro-suzuki-return-seattle-mariners-resolve-internal-battle |title=When Winter Never Ends |first=Wright |last=Thompson |website=[[ESPN]] |date=7 March 2018 |access-date=8 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180307185054/http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/22624561/ichiro-suzuki-return-seattle-mariners-resolve-internal-battle |archive-date=7 March 2018 |url-status=live  }}</ref>

Since November 2000, Nobuyuki has run the Ichiro exhibition room named "I-fain" in [[Toyoyama, Aichi|Toyoyama]], Suzuki's hometown. It exhibits a wide variety of Ichiro Suzuki [[memorabilia]], including personal items from his childhood and up-to-date baseball gear.<ref name="nytimes1"/><ref name="seattletimes1"/>

Suzuki is the honored chairman of the Ichiro Cup, a six-month-long boys' league tournament with more than 200 teams, held in [[Toyoyama, Aichi|Toyoyama]] and surrounding cities and towns since 1996. Suzuki watches the final game and attends its awards ceremony every year.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/sb20031206a1.html|title=Ichiro returns home to watch boys' game|newspaper=[[The Japan Times]]|access-date=25 September 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://event.chunichi.co.jp/ichiro/|title=イチロー杯争奪学童軟式野球大会|newspaper=[[Chunichi Shimbun]]|access-date=25 September 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130218135157/http://event.chunichi.co.jp/ichiro/|archive-date=18 February 2013}}</ref>

Suzuki speaks English well and often spoke it with his teammates in his playing days,<ref>{{cite AV media | title=How good was Ichiro, really? | date=June 21, 2025 | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bulA442ixSs | time=2:40 | via=YouTube }}</ref> but uses an interpreter during interviews so that he is not misunderstood.<ref name="p974">{{cite web | last=Oz | first=Mike | title=ESPN anchor has it all wrong about Ichiro not speaking English | website=Yahoo Sports | date=2016-08-08 | url=https://sports.yahoo.com/espn-anchor-has-it-all-wrong-about-ichiro-not-speaking-english-181616723.html | access-date=2024-09-17}}</ref> He also learned Spanish early in his MLB career, using it to banter with other players.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://online.wsj.com/articles/ichiro-suzuki-uncensored-en-espanol-1409356461|title=Ichiro Suzuki Uncensored, en Español|first=Brad|last=Lefton|newspaper=Wall Street Journal |date=29 August 2014|via=www.wsj.com}}</ref> Suzuki further explains he did it because he felt a kinship to the Latin American players who, like him, were foreigners trying to succeed in the U.S.