Japanese baseball fan enters empty stadium via robot

Yomiuri Giants players talk to a fan, Futaba Tsuchiya, on a monitor after their game against Hiroshima Toyo Carp, held without spectators, at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan June 23. — Jack Tarrant/Reuters

TOKYO: One lucky baseball fan was taken inside the otherwise empty Tokyo Dome for Yomiuri Giants' win on June 23 via a monitor mounted on a robot she controlled from home.

Nippon Professional Baseball teams have begun their season without fans in stadia due to restrictions implemented to slow the spread of Covid-19, yet 14-year-old Futaba Tsuchiya was given special access via the monitor.