There was a certain irony when the Daiei Hawks, the Fukuoka-based baseball team, became Japan's national champions for the first time in 35 years. For even as the team clambered to the top of the country's most popular sport - Daiei, its owner and troubled retailer, was teetering on the brink of collapse with some Y2,200bn of group liabilities....more
There was a certain irony when the Daiei Hawks, the Fukuoka-based baseball team, became Japan's national champions for the first time in 35 years. For even as the team clambered to the top of the country's most popular sport - Daiei, its owner and troubled retailer, was teetering on the brink of collapse with some Y2,200bn of group liabilities....
