Nobuhiro Takashiro

Nobuhiro Takashiro (高代 延博)

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 6", Weight 162 lb.
• School Hosei University
• High School Chiben Gakuen High School

• Born May 27, 1954 in Yoshino-gun, Nara Japan
• Died December 9, 2025 in Osaka, Osaka Japan

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Biographical Information

Nobuhiro Takashiro played every infield position in a 11-year career in Nippon Pro Baseball.

Takashiro won a Tokyo Big Six University League batting title in the fall of 1975. He went on to play for Toshiba in the industrial leagues, and the Nippon Ham Fighters picked him in the first round of the 1978 NPB draft. He hit .249/.278/.355 as a rookie in 1979 and stole 14 bases in 19 tries. His first homer came in mid-May against Osamu Higashio. He made the Pacific League All-Star team, and he was 0-for-1 in the 1979 NPB All-Star Game. Takashiro won his first Diamond Glove Award at shortstop, and he was the first rookie to win that award. In 1980, Nobuhiro batted .269/.332/.345 and was named to the Pacific League Best Nine as the shortstop. He also made his second All-Star team, and he went 0-for-1 again in the 1980 NPB All-Star Game. He hit .268/.306/.382 in 1981 then went 5 for 22 in the 1981 Japan Series, which Nippon Ham lost.

The Nara native hit .262/.321/.338 in 1982. In 1983, he batted .275/.347/.386 with 12 steals in 15 tries and 9 home runs and made his third and last All-Star team. He hit .262/.316/.439 in only 33 games in 1984 then returned to regular action in 1985, batting .271/.341/.408 with 11 homers. Takashiro set the Fighters team record with 41 sacrifice bunts in a season. Takashiro slumped to .225/.308/.346 in 1986, his last year as a starter. He hit .197/.309/.252 in 58 games in 1987 and went 0 for 12 with a run in 1988. He was traded to the Hiroshima Carp for Mitsunori Takiguchi and Michio Nabeya in 1989, when he hit .250/.286/.281 in 24 games.

Takashiro was the fielding coach for the Carp from 1990 to 1998,and he moved to the Chunichi Dragons as fielding coach from 1999 to 2001. He then became the fielding coach Nippon Ham Fighters in 2002, and he was the bench coach for the Chiba Lotte Marines in 2003. Takashiro returned to the Dragons from 2004 to 2008. He coached for Japan in the 2009 World Baseball Classic, which they won. The Hanwha Eagles named him their bench coach in 2010, and he went to the Orix Buffaloes as third base coach from 2011 to 2012. He then coached for Japan in the 2013 World Baseball Classic, and he moved to the Hanshin Tigers system as fielding coach from 2014 to 2020. He later coached the Osaka University of Economics from 2022 to 2025 before he passed away due to esophageal cancer.

Overall, Takashiro hit .256/.319/.361 with 772 hits and 57 homers in 11 seasons in 917 games in NPB. He stole 54 bases in 83 tries and scored 406 runs while driving home 346.

Sources

• Wiki Japan
• Japan Baseball Daily by Gary Garland