Hyōgo Prefecture

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.

People born here, unspecified city or town

• Hiroshi Fujimoto, minor league catcher
• Tadashi Goto, NPB infielder
• Masamitsu Hamano, Japanese national team pitcher
• 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
• Hachiro Maekawa, NPB pitcher
• Shigeji Matushita, NPB outfielder
• Kazuaki Minami, NPB pitcher
• Akane Nakamura, Japanese womens' national team outfielder
• Takayoshi Nakao, NPB player
• Nobuaki Nidegawa, NPB umpire; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Masafumi Nishi, Japanese national team infielder
• Seizo Noda, NPB owner; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Yoshizou Oribe, NPB catcher-infielder
• Hiroshi Oshita, NPB player and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Takumi Otomo, NPB player
• Tatsuo Saeki, high school official; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Masao Santa, NPB catcher
• Kazuji Shiraki, NPB infielder
• Mirei Suzuki, author; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• So Taguchi, outfielder
• Masafumi Takeda, NPB pitcher
• Sukeichi Takeda, NPB infielder
• Susumu Yagi, NPB catcher
• Yoshinori Yamarin, minor league pitcher

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