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Other newly elected members are Robin L. Coxe'95, Rebecca del Carmen '95, Tasha A. Fairfield'95, Emily Y. Furuya '95, Nancy E. Greene '95,Suzanne M. Gutter '95, Patricia L. Hersh '95,Susie B. Hwang '95 and Aimee L. Kahan...
...narrow sense, Furuya's suicide was simply the act of a deeply despondent individual no longer able to cope. But his death can also be seen as a painful parable about how seriously many Japanese managers view responsibility and how they deal with failure. While many Americans feel little company loyalty and switch fairly easily to another firm when confronted with a setback, the Japanese tend to regard a job as a lifelong proposition and judge themselves entirely in the light of how well they do it. For some Japanese, especially those in their late 40s or older, failure...
...Furuya had been agonizing over his negotiations with the team's star players: Randy Bass, a bearded American slugger who led the Osaka-based team to victory in the 1985 Japan Series, and Masayuki Kakefu, a fierce third baseman once known as "Mr. Tigers." The ball club sacked Bass last month after he overstayed his leave in the U.S., where his eight-year-old son was being treated for a brain tumor. Kakefu, whose game had suffered because of injuries, wanted to retire. To make matters worse, the Tigers were at the bottom of their six-team league...
...taken its toll. Japanese managing directors, unlike general managers of U.S. teams, seldom arrange trades or put together rosters. Yet they are held responsible if the team fares badly. They usually have no background in the sport and are employed directly by the large corporations that finance the teams. Furuya, who had worked since 1955 for the Hanshin Electric Railway Co., the Tigers' owner, oversaw operations at Koshien Stadium before being appointed managing director. Furuya was "too earnest, sincere and had too strong a sense of responsibility," observed noted Sports Commentator Shinya Sasaki. "His title was managing director...
...Furuya died, the Tigers were scheduled to play the Yomiurim Giants in the Tokyo Dome stadium. They went ahead with the game, but not before Manager Minoru Murayama declared the team wanted to win at any cost, in memory of Furuya. They lost...