Former Yomiuri Giants slugger Hideki Matsui, who has joined the New York Yankees, is not the only Japanese to take advantage of a free-agent system.
Though big bucks are not part of the deal, workers at Toshiba Corp. are trying to prove themselves in their chosen sections under a so-called in-house FA program.
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