On July 11, 11:11 a.m. (Portuguese time), it was announced Kazuyoshi Miura would travel to Portugal to discuss extending his contract with UD Oliveirense.
We interviewed this “Amazing Customer,” i.e., Eiko Kirino about her career that led to the president, and why the motorcycle brand is called “Macho Kawasaki.”
At the WBC game against South Korea, seeing Samurai Japan’s Lars Nootbaar go for a mighty diving catch and sprint tenaciously to second base by outdoing the defense, he must have been nodding, “Yes! This is it!”
St. Louis Cardinals outfielder, Lars Nootbaar, 25, was selected to play for Japan in the March World Baseball Classic (WBC) as the first non-Japan-born player.
“They might not say so, but I think most people’s lives are like a rollercoaster, at least with one or two bumps,” the petite woman sitting in front of me said thoughtfully.
Yuko is a native of Obu City, Aichi Prefecture in Japan. She had been coaching the British Women’s National Judo Team in the U.K. since 2010, working day and night to achieve good results at the 2012 London Olympics.
With Honda winning its first F1 title in 30 years, new light is shed on the Japanese corporate culture and mentality, quite different from those in the West.
In March 2023, a Hong Kong student at a Japanese university was arrested for allegedly inciting secession, based on Article 20 and 21 of the Hong Kong national security law, sending shockwaves across Japan and the international community.