Word: tamura
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...October and assign two others to open next season in Tokyo. Japan's association with American baseball, of course, goes back to Babe Ruth. Just last November, on a typical All-Star tour, the Dodgers' Orel Hershiser capped his nearly scoreless autumn by yielding a Ruthian homer to Fujio Tamura of the Nippon Ham Fighters ("I was told he couldn't hit a curve ball"). But Japan is importing all sports now, and the Los Angeles Rams will confront the San Francisco 49ers there in August...
Most U.S. trading partners were relieved that the Senate did not appear to have enough votes to override a veto. In Japan, the most prominent target of the legislation, officials were delighted. Said Hajime Tamura, chief of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry: "We would like to note our appreciation that more than one-third of the Senate voted against the bill...
...chips is a severe glut in the $31 billion worldwide market for semiconductors. Several Japanese trading companies buy surplus chips from manufacturers inside the country and then sell them at huge discounts in other Far Eastern countries, a practice that Tokyo claims it is trying to control. Said Hajime Tamura, head of MITI: "((Reagan's action)) ignores all the efforts taken by Japan in faithfully adhering to the clauses of the agreement...