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Interview With Robert Fitts, Author of Wally Yonamine: The Man who Changed Japanese Baseball

August 31st, 2008 · 8 Comments

The following is an interview with Robert Fitts, author of Wally Yonamine: The Man who Changed Japanese Baseball. The book is published by University of Nebraska Press and is now available at Amazon.com or at WallyYonamine.com.
EWC:What attracted you to the story of Wally Yonamine to the degree that you wanted to write a book on [...]

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Tags: Baseball - Japan · Books

Those Falling Birthrates of Asia

August 31st, 2008 · 21 Comments

A topic I’m personally fascinated by. Replacement level populations, to put it in Sabermetric terms. But this is serious business in Asia and Europe, and I’ll try to link to it more often. I highly recommend Canadian conservative columnist Mark Steyn’s many writings on the subject.
Here’s an article in today’s Washington Post on how Japanese [...]

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Tags: Future End of Humanity