A couple of interesting articles appeared in The Japan Times during the first week of this month, both mentioning interleague play, and it would appear Japanese baseball may finally be moving toward the scheduling of regular-season games between Central and Pacific League teams.
First, on March 1, there appeared an op-ed piece written by Prof. Emeritus Masaru Ikei of Keio University, translated from the Seiron column of the Sankei Shimbun on Feb. 22, about reviving Japanese baseball.
The good professor offered three ideas for doing just that. His second and third, respectively, were to reform the draft system and to abolish the existing quota for foreign players. His No. 1 proposal was to introduce interleague play.