Her Husband Is Worth 1 Trillion Won, Yet... Ohtani’s Wife Carries a 40,000-Won Shoulder Bag in a Stunning Twist

According to The Financial News, her husband’s official contract value alone is a staggering 1 trillion won. In reality, that 1 trillion won does not even represent half of Ohtani’s true worth. His additional income from endorsements and other sources is several times that amount.
This is why Ohtani is relatively indifferent to his salary. It also explains how he was able to defer most of his pay.
Shohei Ohtani, the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar, is practically a walking conglomerate. Yet the bag in the hand of his wife, Mamiko Tanaka, who has been under the global spotlight, did not bear a single recognizable luxury logo. Her “value-for-money fashion” has shattered the stereotype that a superstar’s wife must be flashy, and it is heating up conversations around Major League Baseball off the field.
What recently caught the eye of media outlets in Japan and the United States was a white tote bag Mamiko carried in her daily life.

The bag, with a practical design and plenty of room for belongings, is from the Japanese brand Samantha Thavasa. A look at the price tag makes you do a double take: it costs around 30,000 yen, or roughly 280,000 won.
Her choice shows no sign of leaning on her husband’s overwhelming wealth, which exceeds 20 billion yen (about 189 billion won) a year when advertising revenue and other income are included. She simply picked a roomy, functional bag that fits her own lifestyle.
Mamiko’s strict sense of practicality is nothing new. Korean baseball fans will vividly remember the shock of March 2024.

When she first appeared at the arrivals hall of Incheon International Airport with Ohtani for the Seoul Series, the small black shoulder bag on her shoulder turned out to be a 49,900-won item from the Spanish fast-fashion brand Zara.
Her down-to-earth style also stood out on the basketball court that same winter. When she attended an NBA Los Angeles Lakers game in person with her husband, the black sweater she wore was likewise revealed to be a Zara piece priced in the 70,000-won range, drawing admiration from fans.
The highlight came last November at the championship parade celebrating the Los Angeles Dodgers’ back-to-back World Series titles, where the eyes of baseball fans around the world were fixed.
In the middle of the lavish festivities, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people, the smartphone Mamiko pulled from her pocket to capture her husband’s moment of glory was not a latest high-end model. It appeared to be an iPhone 13 mini, released in 2021 and now considered an older device.

In the world of professional sports, where astronomical sums of money change hands, it is common to see stars’ families draped head to toe in expensive luxury brands, flaunting their wealth. Mamiko, however, focuses squarely on practicality — on whether something is truly necessary for her — rather than on trends or what others might think.
Shohei Ohtani is the 1 trillion won man who is obsessed only with the essence of baseball.
And beside him is his rational wife, Mamiko Tanaka, in whom you cannot find even a gram of pretension. It is perhaps only natural that fans around the world applaud this couple, whose everyday, unassuming life stands in such stark contrast to the almost unreal numbers Ohtani is putting up in Major League history.
jsi@fnnews.com Jeon Sang-il Reporter