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Sake-Drenched Postcards - Fighters, Be Ambitious! (1265 words) |
 | The scandal resulted when Nippon Meat Packers (Nippon Ham) altered labels of some foreign beef products to indicate domestic origin to claim government subsidies paid out in a beef-buy-back program that was intended to help the meat industry after it suffered from the outbreak of mad cow disease. |
| These are the Fighters, a team that is generally unloved and hasn't won a pennant since 1981; and this is Japanese baseball, a league that would allow rapid changes in the game as easily as the Japanese government would encourage bank loan reform. |
| Rather, the move will be more for the sole benefit of the Fighters with management probably hoping to replicate the success of the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks, a team that has slowly built up a sizeable fan base after moving south from the Kansai area for Japan's island of Kyushu a little over a decade ago. |
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