Newly appointed Nippon Professional Baseball commissioner Ryozo Kato hopes to find a way for Japanese baseball to prosper despite an exodus of star players to the major leagues each year.
''I wonder if there are ways for Japanese baseball and the major leagues to benefit each other through interaction. I don't want to make Japanese baseball a loser,'' the former ambassador to the United States said at the Japan National Press Club on Wednesday.
Japan's longest-serving ambassador to the United States holding the post for six and a half years through May 2008, Kato spent much of his two-hour press conference discussing Japan-U.S. relations and the upcoming U.S. presidential election.
He is scheduled to assume the commissioner's post next Tuesday.
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