Word: nagoya
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...English soccer fans are devastated. Their top scoring ace, GARY LINEKER, is moving to the Grampus Eight club of Nagoya, Japan, in a deal worth nearly $9 million. Japan, where professional soccer will get under way in 1993, wants to become a global force in the sport. Such companies as Matsushita, Mazda and Toyota, which have invested in soccer teams, are luring world-class players to kick-start the action...
...some workaholic Japanese, ignoring vacations is no longer an option. Jusco, a supermarket chain, has ordered a mandatory month-long annual holiday for workers at middle-management level and above. Hitoshi Murakami, 36, a Nagoya store manager, spent his enforced leisure time hiking around his local prefecture, visiting his 90-year-old grandmother in Osaka, and for the first time since joining the company 14 years ago, taking a trip with his wife and her family, to the seaside town of Toba. Murakami also attended the Japanese equivalent of a PTA meeting, his first ever, and discovered that his eight...