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...gods of baseball work in mysterious?and intercontinental?ways. In Japan, where baseball is considered only slightly less important than breathing, Osaka's famously hapless Hanshin Tigers (one Series title in 68 years) cruised to a pennant this year and will face the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks in the Japan Series this week. Across the pond, the Boston Red Sox, who haven't won a title since the end of World War I, are alive in the post-season, just one step away from the World Series. There are other similarities: each team plays second fiddle to an imperial rival...
...Trade friction? Racial tension on Okinawa? In Shimoda, the irritants in the modern U.S.-Japan relationship seem far away?Xand that's the idea. "Sometimes the relations between the U.S. and Japan are influenced by emotional feelings and economics," said Ryosenji priest Daiei Matsui. "Shimoda should maintain the human relationship based on cultural understanding." Heady stuff for countries whose common history includes a pair of atomic bombs. But as the bartender testifies, Shimoda represents an altogether different kind of ground zero...
...Nomo opened the gate, and at the time people said, 'He's a traitor to Japanese baseball,'" says all-time homer king Sadaharu Oh, who manages the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks. "Now if you're a good player, people ask, 'Why don't you go to the United States?'" Oh likes it better this way. "Why not?" he says. "I wish I had the chance...
...layoffs, that companies would recover when the economy perked up. The real story is that Tokyo's instinctive reaction has been to dole out government contracts to construction companies and make banks provide cheap capital to keep retail empires going. (In January, the government backed a bailout of struggling Daiei Inc., a retailing giant that needs $3 billion from its main creditor banks to stay afloat.) This kind of propping up and bailing out is expensive: healthier parts of the economy and eager entrepreneurs get starved for loans. Until 1998, Tokyo couldn't even admit how bad its banks' balance...
...know much about him. I didn't know he was hitting a lot of home runs, but it's Japan, man." As the scheduling gods and fate would have it, the Buffaloes' last two games, on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, are against the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks - managed by, of course, Sadaharu...