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However brief the visit, the spending orgies are legendary. In Seoul, backstreet stores in Itaewon sell fake designer clothes and accessories exclusively to Japanese groups, often from back rooms hidden behind sliding screens and false walls. "Japanese are big customers," says one shop manager. "They buy a lot." A tour...
Nomo's success inspired so many players to follow in his footsteps that Japan's baseball executives were moved to action. Led by Shigeyoshi Ino, general manager of the Pacific League Kobe-based Orix Blue Wave (owned by Orix Corp., a major leasing company), they came up with a plan...
Those who fear indentured servitude to their American cousins are searching for solutions. One frequently discussed option is contraction: a scenario in which Japan's 12 teams are reduced in number to tighten up competition and increase overall per-game attendance. Another idea is expansion, as in a plan proposed...
There may also be a slight tinge of ethnocentricity clouding the issue: Shigeo Nagashima, now the Giants manager, told a meeting of supporters in 1999 that he wanted to make an all-kokusan (made-in-Japan) Giants team. There is currently a limit of three foreign players per team. Longtime...
JF: All of the characters that I took from Shakespeare more or less stayed the same, but it’s a smooth transition from my own vaguely Elizabethan lines written in verse to the lines that are clearly Shakespeare. But the lead player required a completely new character, because...