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...would go on to break Hank Aaron's lifetime home-run record, and its charismatic, clutch-hitting third baseman Shigeo Nagashima. Los Angeles Dodger owner Walter O'Malley was so impressed with Nagashima that he tried to buy his contract, but the Giants' aging founder Matsutaro Shoriki turned the offer down flat. The quality of Japanese baseball, once considered laughably bad, had advanced so much in the postwar years - in a striking parallel to the then-booming Japanese economy - that Shoriki was talking up an eventual Real World Series with the American champions. Although Nagashima was interested in the Dodger...
...introduction to an unfamiliar artistic culture? Perhaps, but not because such a juxtaposition fails to address important issues for Chinese painting. In fact, the dramatic meeting of the two religious traditions, Buddhism and Daoism, and their dialogue with a third belief system, Confucianism, is the intellectual thread that Matsutaro Shoriki Curator of Asiatic Art Wu Tung attempts to draw across the three spacious galleries of the MFA's Gund Gallery. Nor should it bother us so much, at this stage in the game, that the scholar's rock and the Buddhist relief are utterly divorced from any notion of social...
Yomiuri was the first major Japanese paper to run a full list of radio programs and later formed Japan's first commercial TV network. Shoriki's most enduring brainchild was baseball, which he helped popularize. Says one Yomiuri official: "Each time the Giants win, our readers yell 'Banzai!' while watching them over our NTV, and again when reading about them in our paper...
...After Shoriki died in 1969, the paper was headed by Mitsuo Mutai, 87, who is known as hanbai no kamisama-god of newspaper sales...
...June, Mutai was succeeded by Yosoji Kobayashi, 70, a son-in-law of Shoriki...