Word: ichiro
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saturday: After blasting a "sayonara," or game-winning, homer, slugger Hiromoto Okubo of the first-place Yomiuri Giants (Central League) is so overcome with emotion that he bursts into tears on reaching home plate in a 6-4 victory over the Hanshin Tigers. Tuesday: League-leading hitter Ichiro Suzuki, left, of the Orix Blue Wave (second place, Pacific League) smacks the 200th hit of his record-breaking season in a 6-5 win over the Chiba Lotte Marines. Thursday: The Tigers lose again, 4-0, as Chunichi Dragons pitcher Kuo Yuan-tzu becomes only the fifth hurler in besuboru history...
Sunday: In a Central League showdown, the first-place Yomiuri Giants beat the second-place Hiroshima Carp 3-1, making up for their worst ever defeat the day before (a 19-5 loss to the Carp). Wednesday: Orix Blue Wave superstar Ichiro Suzuki (left), who tends bonsai in his off-hours, broke a 43-year-old record with his 192nd hit of the season (George Sisler set the U.S. record of 257 in 1920). Friday: Suzuki went hitless as the Pacific Division's first-place Seibu Lions beat the second-place Orix 6-1, moving four games ahead. Rain...
Politician Ichiro Ozawa's Blueprint shows how to get there...
...political players are working hard on their revised scripts. The major parties are all centrist, but some policy distinctions are becoming clear, even though they cut across current party lines. Within the L.D.P., for example, many endorse the carefully articulated demands of Hosokawa's main strategist and political ally, Ichiro Ozawa, for a more "normal" Japan, meaning a country that can participate readily in military actions mandated by the United Nations or its own allies. Within the Hosokawa coalition, on the other hand, many, including the Prime Minister and chief Cabinet Secretary Masayoshi Takemura, are more at home with Japan...
What is more, the political engineer behind Hata's insurgency is Ichiro Ozawa, a tough backroom operator who was right-hand man to Shin Kanemaru, the Takeshita faction's Mr. Big until prosecutors caught up with him last March. Kanemaru stands trial next month on charges of failing to pay taxes on the millions he allegedly skimmed off illicit political donations. Largely because of Ozawa's close association with Kanemaru, the national daily Asahi Shimbun is less than impressed with the new group. "They attack the limitations of the L.D.P.," the paper noted last week. "But weren't they...