Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balance, while most people who charge the U.S. with "war crimes" use the term loosely, U.S. practices in South Viet Nam are suspect. Moreover, there are troubling legal precedents set by the Tokyo trial of Japanese leaders after World War II. One defendant was Koki Hirota, Foreign Minister during Japan's 1937 "rape" of Nanking. Though Hirota had protested the atrocities, the Tokyo tribunal found him guilty of not "insisting before the Cabinet" that they be halted immediately. Hirota received a death sentence and was executed. Where does this leave U.S. Cabinet officers...
...Giants last year. When they went to Japan to take on such supposed pushovers as the Taiyo Whales, Nankai Hawks and Chunichi Dragons, the Giants were clobbered in six out of nine games. Now, anxious to pick up more pointers, the Japanese have sent two of their best teams, Tokyo's Yomiuri Giants and Lotte Orions, to train in Florida and Arizona respectively. As intended, their performances have given impetus to Japan's interest in internationalizing big league baseball and thus creating what Orions Chairman Nasaichi Nagara calls the "true World Series...
...Tokyo Giants, winners of six straight Japanese championships, gave a preview of that prospect when they met the Baltimore Orioles, winners of last year's World Series, in an exhibition game at Miami. First Baseman Sadaharu Oh, the "Babe Ruth of Japan," who slugged 47 homma last season and earns a neat $120,000 a year, drove in two runs on two hits, using an odd, dog-at-a-hydrant batting stance that hasn't been seen in the U.S. since the heyday of Mel Ott. Oh's occidental counterpart, mountainous Boog Powell (35 home runs...
...wanting in hitting power and speed on the basepaths. Slugger that he is, First Baseman Oh, nonetheless, owes some of his homers to the fact that the fences in Japanese ballparks are 30 ft. to 40 ft. shorter than those in the U.S. Eager to amend their deficiencies, the Tokyo Giants attended daily lectures run by their hosts, the Los Angeles Dodgers, taking notes as Shortstop Maury Wills told them through an interpreter to "Sekkyoku-teki ni hasire [Run aggressively]" and Batting Coach Dixie Walker advised ''Liner uchi o kokoro gakeyo [Hit the line drive]." They...
...Orions celebrated a 7-2 victory over the California Angels last week by touching off a string of firecrackers in the dugout. Ranked as the strongest hitting team in Japan, the Orions last season had five men in the lineup who hit 20 or more home runs. Unlike the Tokyo Giants, who pride themselves on being "pureblood Japanese," the Orions have two gaijin (foreigners) in their murderer's row-Arturo Lopez (21 home runs), a former utility player for the New York Yankees, and Black Outfielder George Altman (30 homers), late of the Chicago Cubs. Lopez, who was raised...