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...Pitchers went straight at Ichiro Suzuki last year, figuring to dent his gaudy Japan League credentials, and the Seattle Mariners' 27-year-old rookie rightfielder made them all pay. He sliced up the American League with a .350 batting average, got more hits (242) than anyone else in 71 years, and became only the second man ever voted American League Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player in the same season. No one found a way to neutralize him then, and now, just a season and a half after he hit the beach, American baseball is waving the flag...
...whom they believe possesses unsurpassed wisdom and power. In their eyes, Shoei Asai, the 70-year-old leader of a religious sect called Nichiren Kenshokai, is a healer and a prophet who envisions a looming calamity for Japan that he alone can avert. "Asai sensei understands" says Kazuhito Suzuki, a disillusioned, young construction worker who professes nothing but disdain for Japan's establishment and despair for the future. "He has the answers...
...folks in the most unexpected places?like the host countries, where soccer is hardly the prevailing pasttime. In the first half of Japan's initial match against Belgium, which resulted in a draw, many of the 55,256-strong, blue-clad home crowd sat strangely mute. But when Takayuki Suzuki scored Japan's first goal of World Cup 2002, Saitama Stadium erupted in a frenzy of pride. And once the Japanese got the hang of it, they could not be stopped. The night their team defeated Russia, Kyoko Ebata, 28, a Tokyo artist, was out with friends in a local...
...folks in the most unexpected places - like the host countries, where soccer is hardly the prevailing pasttime. In the first half of Japan's initial match against Belgium, which resulted in a draw, many of the 55,256-strong, blue-clad home crowd sat strangely mute. But when Takayuki Suzuki scored Japan's first goal of World Cup 2002, Saitama Stadium erupted in a frenzy of pride. And once the Japanese got the hang of it, they could not be stopped. The night their team defeated Russia, Kyoko Ebata, 28, a Tokyo artist, was out with friends in a local...
...ARRESTED. MUNEO SUZUKI, 54, influential but unpopular Japanese legislator, who for years was a Liberal Democratic Party heavyweight at the Foreign Ministry, for alleged bribery; in Tokyo. Suzuki's power struggle with Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka led to her sacking this January, which severely dented the popularity of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Officials allege Suzuki accepted a $40,000 kickback from a Hokkaido logging company. DIED. FRITZ WALTER, 81, captain of the first German football team to win the World Cup (in 1954), an achievement that helped ease Germany's pariah status following World War II; in Enkenbach-Alsenborn, Germany...