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...climbing, and revenues are on the decline. A growing number of clubs are crying broke. Several others, including the Detroit Tigers and Houston Astros, are being shopped around by cash-drained owners. Last week's sale of the money-losing Seattle Mariners to a group headed by Japan's Hiroshi Yamauchi, president of the video-gamemaker Nintendo, was the latest confirmation of the trend...
After five months of debate, major league baseball owners gave a thumbs-up to the $125 million sale of the Seattle Mariners to an investment group headed by Hiroshi Yamauchi, the president of Nintendo in Japan. The owners waved the deal through because Yamauchi agreed to limited decision-making power. Said American League president Bobby Brown: "The offshore interest has investment but not much to say about how the franchise is operated." (See related story on page...
...diplomatic sense, the U.S.-Japanese relationship is one of the great successes of postwar American history. An enemy has become a close and prosperous ally, intimately tied to America's own diplomacy, economy and -- especially for the younger generation -- culture. Says Hiroshi Hirabayashi, the deputy chief of mission in the Japanese embassy in Washington: "The substance, the facts, are positive in our bilateral relations. But the perception is more or less negative...
...When Hiroshi Yamauchi, the president of Nintendo, bid $100 million to buy the Seattle Mariners baseball team last week, baseball commissioner Fay Vincent all but dismissed the offer, saying it was "unlikely that foreign investors" would win approval. Although by week's end Vincent had softened his position, his initial reaction reflected the nation's mood. In Japan- battered Michigan, where antagonism runs deep among autoworkers, U.A.W. Local 900 in Wayne made its own small stand for America last week, pushing foreign cars to a back parking lot at the local Ford plant. Around the nation, companies are offering incentives...
Wednesday: Woman in the Dunes. Director Hiroshi Teshigahara...