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イチロー さん, an MVP worth $100M

After an unusual in-the-park home run (the first for an All Star game), and receiving a well deserved MVP, the Mariners are now offering Ichiro-san a 5-year contract extension worth $90-100 Million (that’s ¥12,242,804,427)!

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Baseball, not entirely American anymore

There was a good primer from Asian Week listing the current class of APA baseball players (even though it focuses mainly on Japanese nationals playing in MLB).  Looking on the web, I found this website that, although it focuses on … Continue reading

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Olympic skier Toby Dawson reunites with his aboji

This is a nice story, of course, but how many Korean adoptee’s in cannot find their parents in Korea, are no longer wanted by their Korean parents, or because of their ethnicity or other social "mutation" by South Korean standards (part … Continue reading

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