Harimoto's prize came after he beat 32-year-old Croatian Tan Ruiwu in a tight seven-game match in Warsaw on Thursday.
"I won my group here, I'm happy because I won against Tan Ruiwu. If I attacked against him, everything was good but I had problem when I had to defend," Harimoto, who started playing the game at the age of two, told the ITTF website.
"When I was a little boy I sat on a chair and tried play table tennis; now I practise nine hours every day."
(Writing by Sudipto Ganguly in Mumbai; editing by Patrick Johnston)
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