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OTOTAKE with prosthetic feet - 11-18-2018, 11:10 AM

"OTOTAKE, HIROTADA" was born with very short legs on April 6th 1976.

He is living on writing and teaching or other activities in TV.



Last year, he started training to "walk" with prosthetic feet.

And today, Tv show reported his walk by himself. See this video from 44:00.



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11-20-2018, 10:43 AM

Project OTOTAKE 2018 is a collaboration with OSPO and SONY CSL.

See the Video Here.

OTOTAKE wrote a book named "五体不満足:GO-TAI-FU-MANZOKU" meaning "My body is not enough" in 1998. After that he worked as a writer or as commentator.



With the prosthetic feet, he succeeded walking for 7.3 m. He is planning join olympic 2020 as the torch runner which needs 200m of running. He said " I
still have 193m rest for the running"


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