Hyōgo Prefecture

From BR Bullpen

Hyōgo Prefecture is located on Honshu island, Japan. The capital is Kobe, one of the largest ports in Japan. Total population of the prefecture was 5,595,212 as of October, 2005. For a list of places here, see Category:Settlements in Hyōgo.

Hyogo is home to the Orix Buffaloes in Kobe, and the Hanshin Tigers in Nishinomiya, both of the Nippon Professional Baseball league.

[edit] People born here, unspecified city or town

• Hiroshi Fujimoto, minor league catcher
• Tadashi Goto, NPB infielder
• Jinkichi Itoh, NPB infielder
• Soichiro Kaneda, minor league outfielder
• Tokuhisa Kawamura, NPB infielder
• Masaaki Koyama, NPB pitcher; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Nobuo Kura, NPB catcher
• Shigeji Matushita, NPB outfielder
• Takayoshi Nakao, NPB player
• Yoshizou Oribe, NPB catcher-infielder
• Hiroshi Oshita, NPB player and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Takumi Otomo, NPB player
• Masao Santa, NPB catcher
• Kazuji Shiraki, NPB infielder
• So Taguchi, outfielder
• Masafumi Takeda, NPB pitcher
• Susumu Yagi, NPB catcher

Sources include http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyogo_prefecture