For years, former major league pitcher Satoru Komiyama's measure of success was wins on the ballfield, now as manager of Waseda University's baseball team, he wants his yardstick to be the quality of character his players achieve.

"We prepare these players so they can go through life without doing things they will be ashamed of," the 54-year-old Komiyama told Kyodo News in a recent interview. "What matters is whether we can accomplish that or not."

That, he said, is vastly more important than winning games.