‘Does sake make you strong?’ I smiled and shook my head. ‘Sake can make you believe you’re strong. But in reality, Ichiro, you’re no stronger than before you drank it.’ ‘Why do men drink sake then, Oji?’ ‘I don’t know, Ichiro. Perhaps because for a little while, they can believe they’re stronger. But sake doesn’t really make a man stronger.’ ‘Spinach makes you really strong.’ ‘Then spinach is much better than sake. You go on eating spinach, Ichiro.
