{
  "id": 8181840,
  "title": "A full-time engineer, Japan Kurumi Ota left cricket for six years to work on a billion-dollar project",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/a-full-time-engineer-japan-kurumi-ota-left-cricket-for-six-years-to",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-18T04:34:23.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Gulf News",
    "slug": "gulf-news",
    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/sport/cricket/a-full-time-engineer-japan-kurumi-ota-left-cricket-for-six-years-to-work-on-a-billion-dollar-project-1.500679038"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Dubai: For Kurumi Ota, representing Japan at the Asian Games has required balancing international cricket with a demanding career in engineering. The 39-year-old works full-time as a systems engineer at SOMPO, making time for training and international tournaments difficult. Her employer allows her roughly two weeks off twice a year to compete internationally as per Sportstar, but there was a…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}