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	YSHP: 1998 Outlook -- Orix BlueWave
		For the remainder of the season, the BlueWave continued to recede from the pennant race, almost surrendering second place to the revitalized Buffaloes.
		Perhaps the only consolation prize for the BlueWave, other than superstar outfielder Ichiro Suzuki winning his fourth straight batting title, was that they had compiled a winning record against Orix (14-12, one tie).
		Batting.268 at the all-star break, Orix finished with a team.263 average (fifth in the league), a drop from their first-place.271 average a year before.
	www.baywell.ne.jp /users/drlatham/baseball/yakyu/pre1998/bluewav.htm (1616 words)

	Orix Blue Wave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After the 2004 season, the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes were acquired by Orix Group and were merged with the BlueWave to form the Orix Buffaloes.
		Orix BlueWave was founded in 1936 as Osaka Hankyu Baseball Club (大阪阪急野球協会) under the ownership of a Japanese railway company Hankyu Electric Railways (Hankyu Dentetsu), which was one of the oldest Japanese professional baseball team.
		In 1995 and 1996 the Orix BlueWave won the Pacific League pennant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orix_Blue_Wave (458 words)

	Orix BlueWave - Wiki Gonzalez
		It was known as the Hankyu Braves until Orix acquired it in 1989.
		The team was disbanded after 2004 when Orix and the competing Kintetsu Buffaloes decided to merge for financial reasons, forming the Orix Buffaloes.
		The BlueWave is best known in the U.S. for being Ichiro Suzuki's first major league team before coming over to the Mariners.
	digamma.net /btfwiki/index.php/Orix_BlueWave (125 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Orix Blue Wave
		After the 2004 season, the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes were acquired by Orix Group and were merged with the BlueWave to form the Orix Buffaloes.
		Orix BlueWave was founded in 1936 as under the ownership of a Japanese railway company Hankyu Electric Railways (Hankyu Dentetsu), which was one of the oldest Japanese professional baseball team.
		In 1995 and 1996 the Orix BlueWave won the Pacific League pennant.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Orix_Blue_Wave (450 words)

	The Seattle Times: Ichiro
		Finishes Aiko-Dai high school in 1991 and is drafted by the Orix BlueWave.
		Makes debut for Orix BlueWave, hitting.253 in 40 games, but spending most of the time in minors.
		In blind bidding among several major-league teams, the Mariners submitted the highest figure — a staggering $13.125 million (1.4 billion yen) that went to the BlueWave.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /sports/mariners/spotlight/ichiro/bio (998 words)

	Orix Blue Wave - BR Bullpen
		The team previously had been the Orix Braves and prior to that the Hankyu Braves, a strong Pacific League team for decades.
		After just over a decade as the BlueWave, the struggling franchise (after three straight last-place finishes) merged with the Kintetsu Buffaloes to form the Orix Buffaloes.
		The team will probably go down historically most for the work of Ichiro Suzuki, who won seven straight batting titles with the team from 1994 to 2000 and was MVP three times.
	www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Orix_BlueWave (147 words)

	Tokyo Weekender - Sports - Leon Lee - Orix BlueWave Manager
		It was last November when he accepted Orix’s offer to become a full-time batting coach for the 2003 season, and even then never expected he would be the field boss less than a month into the campaign.
		Midway through their game on the 23rd, Orix indicated a press conference “to announce some big news” would take place following the contest and, while most media people predicted Ishige’s ouster, the selection of the American as his successor came as a bit of a surprise.
		Orix will also be the visiting team when the Fighters host Arizona Diamondbacks Day on Sunday, June 15, at the Big Egg.
	www.weekender.co.jp /new/030516/feature-leon_lee-030516.html (1126 words)

	JBall -- Japanese baseball history: The Orix BlueWave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The oldest of the six current Pacific League teams, the Orix BlueWave have gone through several incarnations since their founding in 1936.
		Following Ichiro's lead, the BlueWave struggled to hold on to the top spot, eventually surrendering the pennant to the Seibu Lions and finishing in second place with a 71-61 record.
		That was enough for Orix to finish the season in third place with a 66-66 record.
	ww1.baywell.ne.jp /fpweb/drlatham/history/blue.htm (1696 words)

	ORIX Polska S.A. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The oil shocks of the 1970s had a great influence on the Japanese economy which was aversely affected by the two oil shocks of 1973 and 1979, resulting in reduced growth in capital spending and increased volatility in foreign exchange rates.
		During this decade, ORIX continued to expand its range of products and services, and placed increased emphasis on strengthening synergies among Group companies by emphasizing knowledge sharing and cooperation to make optimal use of corporate resources.
		The 1990s was decade in which ORIX first started to concentrate its efforts at developing its retail business.
	www.orix.pl /en/orix_group.asp?id=6§ion=ORIX_GROUP (1058 words)

	YSHP Japanese Baseball Teams: The Orix BlueWave
		Preferring to be called by his given name, at age 21 Ichiro collected a record 210 hits in his first full season.
		One of the strongest teams in the circuit, the Braves were purchased by the Oriental Leasing company (Orix) in 1988 and renamed the BlueWave two years later.
		Cresting too early in 1997, the BlueWave are now poised to wash others away.
	www.baywell.ne.jp /users/drlatham/baseball/yakyu/teams/bluewav.htm (386 words)

	YakyuShop - - Orix Buffaloes
		With the merger of Orix and Kintetsu, this is the last regular card series made for Ichiro's former club.
		The Buffaloes have merged with Orix BlueWave, so this is the last regular series produced for the club.
		Authentic 59FIFTY New Era cap for the Kansai-based Orix Buffaloes.
	www.yakyushop.net /products.php?cat=20&PARTNER=prorank (230 words)

	SportingNews.com Fantasy Source - Baseball : Orix GM wants to meet with commissioner over Iwakuma 'problem'
		Orix Buffaloes general manager Katsuhiro Nakamura wants to meet with the commissioner of Japanese baseball next week to discuss interest expressed in star pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma by the newly-formed Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, local media reported Sunday.
		When the team merged with the Orix BlueWave, the All-Star pitcher said he had no desire to play for the Orix Buffaloes despite being protected by the team ahead of the dispersal draft.
		Orix manager Akira Ogi has repeatedly said he wants Iwakuma to remain with the team next season.
	fantasy.sportingnews.com /baseball/articles/20041205/584243.html (339 words)

	JapanBall.com - Orix Buffaloes Team Information
		Probably no Japanese team relied on one player as much as the Orix BlueWave depended on outfielder Ichiro Suzuki before he went to the Seattle Mariners.
		Long before Ichiro joined Orix, the BlueWave (originally the Hankyu Braves) had their share of stars.
		One of the strongest teams in the league, the Braves were purchased by the Oriental Leasing company (Orix) in 1988 and renamed the BlueWave two years later.
	www.japanball.com /buffaloes.htm (516 words)

	ORIX/ORIX Baseball Club Co., Ltd.
		ORIX's professional baseball team started out in 1989 as the "ORIX Braves" and was renamed the "ORIX BlueWave" in 1990.
		In December 2004, the "ORIX BlueWave" and the "Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes" merged together to form a new profession baseball team, which was renamed the "ORIX Buffaloes." The new team will go on to represent the Kansai region and will continue to play in both Osaka and Kobe.
		With only 12 professional baseball clubs in Japan, the team provides an effective platform for spreading the ORIX name and forms an important part of ORIX's corporate image and branding strategy.
	www.orix.co.jp /grp/co_e/japan/gr_c_orixbs.htm (108 words)

	Haruki Ihara: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		KOBE (Kyodo) Orix BlueWave manager Haruki Ihara will leave his post and will be replaced by Akira Ogi in the middle of his contract prior to the team's scheduled merger with the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes, Orix officials said Sunday.
		Ihara, whose two-year contract will expire at the end of the 2005 season, met with Orix President Takashi Koizumi at Yahoo BB Stadium in Kobe and was officially notified of a plan to hire Ogi, former skipper of both Orix and Kintetsu, as manager of the merged team -- the Orix Buffaloes.
		Ihara will meet with Orix BlueWave officials again on Tuesday to discuss his future, including the possibility of remaining with the Osaka-based new team with a new role at its front office.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Ihara_Haruki_253702877.htm (652 words)

	ORIX CORP - IX Annual and Transition Report (foreign private issuer) (20-F) Item 4. Information on the Company
		ORIX purchases the equipment on behalf of the user who usually makes monthly payments of a fixed amount and the financial terms are designed to recover most, if not all, of the initial cost of the equipment, interest and other costs during the initial contractual lease term.
		ORIX's corporate finance operations are primarily direct financing leases and installment loans, other than real estate loans, to corporate customers as well as the sale of a variety of financial products and other fee business.
		ORIX Rent-A-Car, together with our other car rental subsidiaries, owned a total of 28,900 vehicles in Japan, serviced by a network of 357 branches as of March 31, 2003, which makes us the second largest car rental company in Japan according to data of the All Japan Rent-A-Car Association.
	sec.edgar-online.com /2003/07/25/0001145549-03-000912/Section4.asp (9999 words)

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		Koizumi spoke quite candidly stating that “as the president of the ORIX Bluewave, we hate [the] free agency system.” In fact, he stated that none of their players use agents in negotiating contracts.
		In explaining why it was necessary to bar agents, Koizumi said that they would inflate player salaries and that would be detrimental, since “not many teams are making money.” Lefton contributed that free agency was not available until the early 1990’s, and that still, few agents are involved.
		He explained that that is why the team is the ORIX Bluewave, not the Kobe Bluewave.
	www.artsci.wustl.edu /~veap/baseball_article.doc (537 words)

	YEHEY!Sports
		From 1994, he served as manager of the Kobe Orix BlueWave, where he pushed Ichiro Suzuki, then an obscure outfielder, to stardom.
		Ogi is also remembered as the driving force for the Orix's league victory in 1995, which heartened residents in Kobe after more than 6,000 people were killed in a massive quake in January of that year.
		The Orix Buffaloes was born out of the 2004 merger of the Kintetsu Buffaloes and Orix BlueWave.
	www.yehey.com /sports/full_article.aspx?id=69969 (249 words)

	BW Online \| July 25, 2002 \| The Corporate Gotcha Game Hits Japan
		Orix is no Enron, which masked its debt and doctored its earnings with a series of off-balance-sheet transactions.
		Orix accounts for leases and calculates its earnings and dividends using U.S. accounting rules when it reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission, but it uses Japanese rules for local tax authorities.
		Miyauchi says Orix will reconsider that policy, and on July 15, he did disclose to analysts a lot of new financial data related to overheads and its portfolio of securities.
	www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/jul2002/nf20020725_2872.htm (1044 words)

	Hisashi Iwakuma: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Iwakuma will be aiming for a third consecutive season with 15 or more wins, as he gets set to throw the first pitch in the history of his new team, the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, on Opening Day 2005 against the Chiba Lotte Marines on March 26.
		His transfer from the Orix Buffaloes to Rakuten came after a controversial tug-of-war that began after the pitcher made it clear he did not want to play for the Kansai-based combined team and had his sights set on Sendai, the home city of the expansion Eagles.
		Iwakuma was protected by Orix in a November dispersal draft but immediately expressed his desire to leave for Rakuten, saying he did not want to play for the Kintetsu-Orix owners because of what they did.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Iwakuma_Hisashi_317042236.htm (1507 words)

	ORIX Asia Limited
		Under the flag-ship of "BlueWave Hotel", ORIX Hotels International Private Limited has a proven track record in the management of various hotels in South East Asia countries.
		ORIX Hotels International Private Limited is our first group company to provide full-scale international hotel management and development services.
		ORIX, assures its investors and hotel owners by providing the upmost advice and expertise for the hotel as well as leisure and catering industries for the prospect of gaining a better market performance and maximizing the profitability through a comprehensive range of professional know-how.
	www.orix.com.hk /services/hotel_md.html (123 words)

	ESPN.com - Weekend games called off
		Japan's professional players had threatened to strike this weekend unless a one-year freeze was placed on the merger of the Pacific League's Kintetsu Buffaloes and Orix BlueWave.
		The players wanted any new teams to join the pro leagues next season while the owners maintained that 2006 would be the earliest a new team could enter Japan professional baseball.
		Earlier this month, the owners of Japan's 12 professional teams voted to approve the merger between the Buffaloes and BlueWave, a move that could result in up to 100 players and team personnel losing their jobs.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1883405&type=story (564 words)

	Lookout Landing :: Halos Heaven Sucks
		If you answered "false", you might want to read my latest blog entry, where I wrote a Perl script to parse a Japanese site I'd found with all the NPB starting lineups back to 1981, and got detailed year-by-year data on Ichiro and Johjima's places in their respective starting lineups.
		I sure would like to have some video of some old Orix games to get a look at the kind of hitter he was back then.
		Orix did place 4th out of 6 teams in the league in 2000, so maybe they did suck.
	www.lookoutlanding.com /story/2006/10/9/141715/452 (1154 words)

	Community Profile - Yoshihiko Miyauchi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Miyauchi became president and CEO of ORIX in 1980, a position he held until assuming his present post as chairman and CEO in 2000.
		He has overseen the growth of ORIX into one of Japan's top corporations – an integrated financial services powerhouse with more than 15,000 employees and a reputation for innovation and providing exceptional value to shareholders.
		The investment paid some unexpected dividends when the ORIX BlueWave, as the team is called, drafted a fourth-round pitcher out of high school in 1992 by the name of Ichiro Suzuki.
	bschool.washington.edu /profiles/miyauchi.shtml (664 words)

	2004 Japanese Professional Baseball (Pro Yakyu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		I believe he has tirelessly served the players here during the crisis that has gripped Japanese baseball since the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes and Orix BlueWave announced on June 13 they were planning to merge.
		The owners, who have a final say in professional baseball, also gave the go-ahead to interleague games during the regular season for the first time since the two-league system was put in place in Japanese baseball in 1950.
		The planned merger between the Kintetsu Buffaloes and Orix BlueWave is a clear indication that money-losing professional baseball teams can no longer be ignored by the corporations that own them.
	www.geocities.com /s_borisov/jb2004/index.html (4242 words)

	Baseball America: Potential Kinetsu/Orix Merger Sends Japan Into Flux
		Buffaloes owner Wa Tashiro said his team is $40 million in debt, and he has been unable to find a buyer.
		With no other options, BlueWave chairman Yoshihiko Miyauchi agreed to work toward the merger of the two clubs.
		Stadium in Kobe, not far from Osaka, and initial indications are the merged team would be called the Orix Buffaloes and play home games in 2005 at both the Osaka Dome and in Kobe.
	www.baseballamerica.com /today/news/040628japan.html (415 words)

	Columns Magazine - The University of Washington Alumni Magazine - Our Man In Tokyo: Page 2
		Yoshihiko Miyauchi chats with ORIX BlueWave outfielder Ichiro Suzuki, who now plays for the Seattle Mariners.
		When his company owned the BlueWave, ORIX CEO Miyauchi nurtured the allstar player's career in Japan.
		These lone traders were largely responsible for ORIX’s whopping 82 percent increase in 2005 net income.
	www.washington.edu /alumni/columns/sept06/content/view/74/1/1/1 (733 words)

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