The Yankees have had their share of bad contracts, too (Rondell White or Hideki Irabu, anyone?).
Last winter, he let aging hitters Hideki Matsui and Johnny Damon walk despite strong playoff performances.
And who knew that Hideki Matsui eats fried pork before games for good luck?
Hideki Matsui's heroic performance for the Yankees last autumn was loudly celebrated in Japan.
And this winter Steinbrenner signed the top two international players, Japan's Hideki Matsui and Cuba's Jose Contreras.
In general, most of the big signings were disappointments, though Orlando Hernandez and Hideki Matsui were excellent signings.
But Johnny Damon (36) and Hideki Matsui (35), both walked after the 2009 season when the team declined long-term contract offers.
Hideki Matsumura, economist at Japan Research Institute, said the figures "confirmed that the Japanese economy has hit bottom and started picking up".
He played rugby in high school and has surrounded himself with friends from the sports world, like Yomiuri Giants outfielder Hideki Matsui.
Likewise, Japanese attendance and television ratings have dropped during the past few years, as star players like Ichiro Suzuki and Hideki Matsui have moved stateside.
The Yankees plan to honor the 2009 World Series MVP during a pregame ceremony that day and will give the first 18, 000 fans Hideki Matsui bobbleheads.
The four Sox relievers who pitched at least 50 innings this year--Papelbon, Mike Timlin, Hideki Okajima and Kyle Snyder--registered a major league best 2.75 bullpen earned-run average.
Inventor, Hideki Watanabe, created the prototype using dental plaster from his practice that he used to line the inside surface of a metal pot in a spiral design.
He has co-authored studies with Japanese economist Hideki Toya that show that as economies develop, they suffer fewer disaster-related deaths and less damage as a proportion of GDP.
The Angels replaced Guerrero with Hideki Matsui, another effective but aging hitter, who also settled for a one-year deal after being cut loose by the suddenly budget conscious Yankees.
"I wasn't frustrated or irritated by it, " Hideki Konno, a Nintendo producer who played a key role on developing the 3DS, said through a translator in a recent interview.
New York Yankees outfielder Hideki Matsui, who was known as Godzilla during his years with the Yomiuri Giants for his prodigious home runs, has a legion of fans and gets the Yankees plenty of press coverage in Japan during the season.
Playing games in 3-D "is something that we've been continually testing and working on at Nintendo, " said Hideki Konno, who has directed or produced some of Nintendo's most prized franchises and was a key person in the 3DS's development, through an interpreter.
Japanese historians have exposed this as a sham, pointing out that Prime Minister Hideki Tojo's (1941-44) wartime diary emphasized the need for ousting the colonial powers, not to liberate them but in order to seize Asian resources to win the ongoing war aimed at subjugating China.
To accomplish the desired effect, he assigned a dozen reporters (and himself) to chronicle the game-day activities of an eclectic collection of individuals, from Henry, Lucchino and Epstein to such players as Boston's Bill Mueller and Lou Merloni and New York's Hideki Matsui and Mariano Rivera--and even the guy who's been working the centerfield scoreboard at Fenway for the past dozen years.
During her visit to Japan, the Director-General participated in a symposium on gender equality in sciences and scientific education in the presence of Mr. Hideki Fukuda, the President of Kobe University - one of the oldest in Japan, as well as Professor and 2008 L'Oreal Prize Winner Ingrid Scheffer, Dr. Yoshie Soma, Special Adviser to the University President, and Professor Roumiana Tsenkova, Director of Gender Equality Office at Kobe University.
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