World Series Hero and True Yankee Hideki Matsui Lives Up To Amusing Japanese Stereotype

Journalistically irresponsible sports blog (TIME Magazine Asian Edition) profiled Hideki Matsui for its Asian Heroes series a few years ago and wrote the following in paragraph 10:

Indeed, his only eccentricity, if it can be called that, is his extensive private library of adult videos. His refreshing ability to laugh self-deprecatingly about his porno collection, reporters say, is one reason why fans and even nonfans have taken to him so much. Says former reporter Isao Hirooka: "Hideki just wants to be like ordinary people."

Granted, I have known about this for several years but have not brought it up because really, who even is this guy? Right? Then he bats .900 against left handed pitchers and I decide this is worth rehashing...