Initially, he picked up a microphone to speak to some 50 assembled reporters. But he quickly put it on the table and resumed his speech in his loud, distinct voice.
Mitsuhiko Kato is a hearty person. And he makes everybody around him believe him with his upright way of talking.
"You can hear me, can't you?" said Kato, the newly introduced head coach of the Link Tochigi Brex of the Japan Basketball League at a Tokyo news conference on Tuesday.