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It has been expanding into niche markets, including environment- and energy-related businesses, and owns a professional baseball team in Japan.
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In 1995, baseball actually surpassed sumo as Japan's most popular sport.
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Igawa is back pitching (not all that well) in Japan with the Orix Buffaloes, DeSalvo pitched in 2012 with the Lamigo Monkeys of the Chinese Professional Baseball League, Wright pitched in 2012 for the Independent Somerset Patriots and Henn is currently at Triple-A with the Mets after pitching in 2012 with the Hanwha Eagles in Korea.
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MLB, which controls international licensing rights to its 30 teams, says baseball wants to capitalize on the Yankees-Red Sox feud in besuboru-crazy Japan.
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But a tough call--such as the one that cost Japan a game against the U.S. in the baseball Classic just as we went to press--will tend to inflame passions anew.
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The involvement of Asics, which makes baseball player Ichiro Suzuki's spikes and is Japan's biggest sporting-goods company, in Thursday's accident led some activists to call for more pressure on non-Western brands to join efforts to tighten their supply chains.
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After the war he bought a Pepsi bottler in Okinawa, where his immigrant father was born, and brought U.S. baseball teams to Japan for exhibition games.
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