is a former professional Japanese

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

player. He played as an

outfielder An outfielder is a person playing in one of the three defensive positions in baseball or softball, farthest from the batter. These defenders are the left fielder, the center fielder, and the right fielder. As an outfielder, their duty is to cat ...

for the

Hiroshima Toyo Carp The is a professional baseball team based in Hiroshima, Japan. They compete in the Central League of Nippon Professional Baseball. The team is primarily owned by the Matsuda family, led by , who is a descendant of Mazda founder Jujiro Matsuda ...

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1979 births Living people Baseball people from Ōita Prefecture People from Usuki, Ōita Hosei University alumni Nippon Professional Baseball outfielders Hiroshima Toyo Carp players Olympic baseball players for Japan Baseball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Japanese baseball coaches Nippon Professional Baseball coaches {{Japan-baseball-outfielder-stub