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Interviews

1. Nomo Press Conference

2. Nomo's American Debut

3. Japanese Fans

4. Nomo's Risk

5. Baseball Hall of Fame

6. The Nomo Tornado in 1995 (Japanese)

7. How the Dodgers internationalized MLB (Japanese)

Narumi,Margaret

Producer at NHK Cosmomedia America, Inc.

Nomo Press Conference

Well, Nomo-san being signed by the Dodgers is probably what differentiated him from signing with any other team. The owner, at the time, the O’Malley’s, they had a very strong relationship with Japan, so they knew exactly how to handle the Japanese press, and the press conference was really, really smooth, it was held here, in Little Tokyo. I want to say about two-hundred attended. I saw dozens of T.V. cameras, dozens of still photographers—most of them made that trip from Japan, not the – also local American—but most of the Japanese did come from Japan at that time.

Date: December 20, 2013

Location: California, US

Interviewer: Mark Langill

Contributed by: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Interviewee Bio

Margaret Narumi, Producer at NHK Cosmomedia America, Inc., in Santa Monica, California, for two decades has produced broadcasts to Japan of Major League Baseball in the United States, featuring Japanese players such as Hideo Nomo, Hideki Matsui and Yu Darvish. Her interview for Discover Nikkei was conducted in both English and Japanese as part of a documentary on Hideo Nomo for the Japanese American National Museum exhibit, Dodgers—Brotherhood of the Game. (September 2014)

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