TOKYO -- Professional wrestling is booming again in Japan after a prolonged slump in popularity. The turnaround is thanks not to muscular masked men facing off in the ring, but rather a Dutch business executive who fell in love with the sport as a boy.
Harold George Meij was born in the Netherlands, but his family moved to Japan for his father's work when he was 8 years old. Unable to speak Japanese or English, Meij was alone in a foreign country and unable to make friends.
