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The Importance of Tazawa

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Dec 12, 2008
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Right-handed baseball pitcher Junichi Tazawa last week signed a US$3 million deal to join the Red Sox baseball team. Nothing particularly remarkable about that. The Boston team already boasts two Japanese superstars on its pitching staff, Daisuke Matsuzaka and Hideki Okajima.

The difference is that the two Japanese pitchers moved to the United States aft…

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