Information: - The or is one of the two professional baseball leagues that constitute Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan. The winner of the league championship plays against the winner of the Pacific League in the annual Japan Series. It currently consists of six teams from around the country. Unlike the Pacific League, designated hitters are not used during Central League home games. - The World Baseball Classic (WBC) is an international baseball tournament sanctioned from 2006 to 2013 by the International Baseball Federation (IBAF) and after 2013 by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC). It was proposed to the IBAF by Major League Baseball (MLB), the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), and other professional baseball leagues and their players associations around the world. It is the main baseball tournament sanctioned by the WBSC, which grants to the winner the title of "World Champion". It previously coexisted with Olympic Baseball (until 2008) and the Baseball World Cup (until 2011) as IBAFsanctioned tournaments, but baseball has not been on the Olympic program since 2008, after it was voted out by the International Olympic Committee in 2005. The final men's Baseball World Cup was held in 2011, and was discontinued to streamline the international calendar. The 2013 Classic, the third edition of the event, was won by the Dominican Republic in an all-Caribbean World Baseball Classic Final. - Murata led the Central League in home runs in both and and is one of the few pure home run hitters in Japanese professional baseball today. He played in the 2008 Beijing Olympics as well as the 2009 World Baseball Classic as a member of the Japanese national team and hit cleanup for much of the latter tournament. - Masato Akamatsu ( Akamatsu Masato , born September 6 , 1982 , in Fushimi Ward , Kyoto City ) is a Nippon Professional Baseball player . He is currently with the Hiroshima Toyo Carp . In August 2010 , Masato made sports headlines by denying batter Shuichi Murata a home run with what sportswriters dubbed the '' Spider - Man Catch , '' rapidly scaling the outfield fence before snaring the ball in midleap . He won the Gold Glove that same year . After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'masato akamatsu' exhibits the relationship of 'country of citizenship'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - dominican republic - japan
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