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...Sasaki McLeod...
Having watched some of their top pitchers go West, Japanese fans are fearful that Kazuhiro Sasaki of the Yokohama Bay Stars, or Masumi Kuwata of the Yomiuri Giants, or maybe even a non-pitcher like Hideki Matsui, power hitter from the Tokyo Giants, will be next. Who else will follow Nomo? "To play in the major leagues is still the stuff dreams are made on," says Ikeda, paraphrasing The Tempest. If he and Valentine are right, then Irabu has the stuff championships are made on. And the tempest started by the Tornado could help turn the World Series into...
...next Sunday's parliamentary election, however, Kasumigaseki has come under attack as never before. Every participating political party is demanding deep reforms to curtail the power of the ministries. "Japan's political dynamism is such that if everyone starts saying the same thing, something will happen," says Takeshi Sasaki, a professor of politics at the University of Tokyo. "This election could create a national consensus for reform." Indeed, even Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, whose Liberal Democrats were in cahoots with the bureaucrats for decades, has promised to cut the 22 ministries in half if his party manages to once again...
...answer is shifting power. Unlike the long-ruling L.D.P., Hosokawa and his coalition are not beholden for their Diet seats to the ubiquitous nokyo (agricultural cooperatives). Moreover, under his reforms, the country's shrinking number of rice farmers will exercise still less influence in the future. Says Takeshi Sasaki, a political scientist at the University of Tokyo: "The old consensus was always to put domestic issues like rice first, but now political reform is breaking that consensus down. Also, when you are getting white-collar unemployment, you can't afford to protect rice growers anymore...
...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, but he was just another middle-class manager forced to shoulder heavy responsibility without being given authority to make a decision...