By the early 1990s it was clear that “sabermetrics,” the search for new baseball knowledge, was an activity that would take place mainly outside of baseball.

Some apology, I feel, is due from one who has never been in Japan for venturing to write about netsukes.

They practised for these by playing games, such as 'keeping house', and 'kiss, cuddle or torture'.

The interest rates paid for private credit were extremely high in some areas. One such case was recorded in a study of Dancheng County, Henan Province. The study found that the combined revenues for production teams was 21.76 million yuan between January and September 1979, yet the expenditure was 36.33 million yuan.