Article: Dice-K train has left Red Sox station

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If you're ever in Osaka, Tokyo, Fukuoka, Ehime, Kanagawa, Chiba or a couple of dozen other cities in Japan, be sure to stop in to any Dandy House - the "Men's Beauty Day Spa." I know I will.

Never been to Japan, but surely the millions of natives who were watching the Red Sox play the Royals starting at 3:10 a.m. Tokyo time will consider it because they saw it (dandy-house.co.jp) pasted there on an ad banner behind the batter's box as Daisuke Matsuzaka took the mound for the first time in a regular-season American baseball game.

Think Matsuzaka is important to the Red Sox? Imagine how important he is to his nation, which has gone atamagahenninaru (crazy) over the

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