TOPPAN PRINTING AMERICA -- Hitting with Power

BY ERIK CAGLE

Shingo Ohkado has an appreciation for baseball, and is an admirer of transplanted Japanese superstar Ichiro Suzuki, the 2001 Most Valuable Player and right fielder for the Seattle Mariners.

Ohkado—president and CEO for Toppan Printing America of Somerset, NJ, a branch of the Tokyo-based worldwide printing king—sees an analogy between the sport and doing business in an economy that has seen better days in both America and his Japanese homeland.