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The Toei Flyers were a team in Nippon Professional Baseball. They were originally known as the Tokyu Flyers. Toei had to let go of the team in 1971 after the sudden death of team owner and Toei president Hiroshi Okawa, and new president Shigeru Okada did not like Okawa favorably. That, combined with the declining movie industry in Japan and the Flyers being wrapped up in the Black Mist Scandal, a series of game fixing scandals in NPB from 1969-1971 , they had to let them go. So the team was sold to Nittaku Home real estate and to their president Akitaka Nishimura, and renamed the Nittaku Home Flyers. However, not even Nishimura could inject life back into the franchise. Some things he did included giving the team 7 new uniforms, and experimented in every aspect of the team's operation, but that all did not work. He already had plans to merge the Flyers to the Lotte Orions because he believed Pacific League was on the verge of death. The plan, however, fell through. At this point, Nishimura was already tired of managing a team that was going nowhere, so he resigned from his leadership and sold the Flyers to Nippon-Ham, and were renamed the Nippon-Ham Fighters.