Nintendo buying the Seattle Mariners symbolizes the US raid by Japan-money. And Lee Kun-hee.

Nintendo is buying an MLB team???
If Lee Kun-hee gets worked up about it, then Samsung will buy the Dodgers.
They jumped into the bidding war for the Dodgers.
Samsung back then was not the Samsung of today.
The Dodgers fans were outraged.
"How dare this unknown Samsung try to take our Dodgers!!! Ptooey!"
That was the reaction.
So they decided they absolutely could not sell to Samsung.
That's how it went, and Samsung failed in the Dodgers acquisition race.
If it were the Samsung of today, the story would have been completely different.
In terms of impact, the Japanese economy before its "Lost 30 Years" felt like a much greater terror to Americans than China does now.
Because that was the era when people said if you sold all the land in Tokyo, you'd still have enough left to buy all of America.