Kimura Shunsaku (photo, 24), younger brother of SMAP’s Kimura Takuya (30), has opened his own clothes store in Tokyo’s youth mecca of Shibuya. In keeping with the Japanese tendency to turn English into something unintelligible, the store is named ‘Shuip Sympathy’. Shunsaku is well known in his own right – he made the national American football team – but is always in the shadow of his ‘aniki.’
• The Japan Series is down to the wire. The series stands at three games apiece, with all games going with home advantage. Which maybe gives the Daiei Hawks the advantage for tomorrow’s game over sentimental favorites the Hanshin Tigers.