Kintetsu, Orix agreed on merger in May

Kintetsu, Orix agreed on merger in May

OSAKA, Japan - Masanori Yamaguchi (foreground), president of Kinki Nippon Railway Co. which owns the rights to the Kintetsu Buffaloes, and Tetsuya Kobayashi, president of the Pacific League baseball club, speak at a press conference at a hotel in Osaka on June 13 about a merger between the Buffaloes and the Orix BlueWave, another baseball club in the Pacific League.

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