When a former vice-president of the most powerful country on earth is forced to appear on Japanese TV to profess his allegiance to a Japanese baseball team and support for minor railway lines out of Tokyo, trouble is surely afoot.
“We’re not a vulture,” Dan Quayle assured public broadcaster NHK. “I have a Seibu Lions T-shirt. I have a Seibu Lions baseball cap. I am a very strong supporter of the Seibu Lions. We are not interested, and we are opposed, to selling the Seibu Lions.
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