Osaka, Osaka

Osaka is the second biggest city of Japan and the capital of Osaka Prefecture.

People born here

• Shota Abe, NPB pitcher
• Tateki Abe, NPB pitcher
• Mitsuhiro Adachi, NPB pitcher
• Toshio Ando, NPB pitcher
• Hiromasa Arai, NPB outfielder
• Hideki Asai, NPB pitcher
• Hideto Asamura, NPB infielder
• Saburo Asaoka, NPB pitcher
• Masao Date, amateur player; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Kane Edokpolo, NPB outfielder
• Kenichiro Enokida, NPB pitcher
• Soichi Fujita, NPB player and manager
• Jiro Fujitate, NPB outfielder
• Koki Fukuda, NPB infielder
• Konosuke Fukuda, NPB pitcher
• Masakazu Fukukawa, NPB catcher
• Yutaka Fukumoto, NPB outfielder
• Shonosuke Hama, NPB outfielder
• Kenji Harada, NPB pitcher
• Kei Hashimoto, minor league pitcher
• Taro Hashimoto, NPB pitcher
• Fumio Hashizume, NPB pitcher
• Shozo Higuchi, NPB outfielder
• Manabu Hiramoto, NPB pitcher
• Mitsuyasu Hirano, NPB outfielder
• Ryosuke Hirata, NPB outfielder
• Masahito Hirayama, NPB pitcher
• Taishi Hirooka, NPB infielder
• Tomoo Hirooka, writer; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Hideaki Homoto, NPB outfielder
• Mun-jong Hong, NPB outfielder
• Ritsuo Horimoto, NPB pitcher
• Shuhei Ichieda, NPB infielder
• Hiroyuki Imai, NPB pitcher
• Hiroaki Inoue, NPB outfielder
• Yoshiaki Inoue, NPB pitcher
• Masanori Iritani, NPB pitcher
• Yoshihiro Ito, Japanese national team coach
• Yukio Ito, NPB pitcher
• Satoshi Iwaki, NPB catcher
• Yasuro Iwaki, NPB catcher
• Eiji Iwakiri, NPB catcher
• Yoshihiro Iwamura, NPB pitcher
• Shunsuke Iwasaki, NPB pitcher
• Tadashi Kagawa, NPB outfielder
• Kazuo Kageyama, NPB infielder and manager
• Yusuke Kajimoto, NPB infielder
• Tadayoshi Kajioka, NPB pitcher
• Tsutomu Kameyama, NPB outfielder
• Masayuki Kamigaki, NPB infielder
• Susumu Kaneda, NPB catcher
• Daiyu Kanemura, NPB pitcher
• Motoyasu Kaneshiro, NPB pitcher
• Kazuo Kasahara, NPB outfielder and manager
• Minoru Kasamatsu, NPB pitcher
• Shinsaku Katahira, NPB infielder
• Naru Katsuda, NPB infielder
• Iori Katsura, NPB catcher
• Masaki Kato, NPB outfielder
• Shinji Kawahara, NPB pitcher
• Takashi Kawai, NPB pitcher
• Kazuhiro Kawamoto, NPB pitcher
• Hideaki Keimoto, NPB outfielder
• Shogo Kimura, NPB infielder
• Tatsuhiko Kinjoh, NPB outfielder
• Yusuke Kinoshita, NPB pitcher
• Shinji Kirihara, amateur infielder; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Toshimi Kubo, NPB infielder
• Yukihiro Kubo, NPB pitcher
• Hiroki Kuroda, pitcher
• Toshiyuki Kitagawa, NPB infielder
• Makoto Kyomoto, NPB pitcher
• Katsuhiko Maekawa, NPB pitcher
• Kohei Mantani, NPB pitcher
• Yuta Matsukihira, NPB pitcher
• Riku Masuda, NPB infielder
• Mitsuyoshi Masukawa, NPB infielder
• Naoki Matoba, NPB catcher
• Seiya Matsubara, NPB catcher
• Atsushi Matsui, NPB catcher
• Hyuma Matsui, NPB infielder
• Yusuke Matsui, NPB outfielder
• Haru Matsumoto, NPB pitcher
• Yukitsura Matsumoto, NPB pitcher
• Kenta Matsusaka, NPB outfielder
• Ryujiro Matsutani, NPB pitcher
• Hajime Miki, NPB infielder and manager
• Masashi Miki, NPB infielder
• Hidenori Minami, NPB pitcher
• Hidekazu Mitsuyama, NPB catcher
• Yoshinobu Miyamoto, NPB pitcher
• Keisuke Mizuta, NPB infielder
• Satoru Morimoto, NPB infielder
• Koichi Morita, NPB pitcher
• Reo Moriyasu, Japanese national team pitcher
• Minoru Murakami, NPB executive; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Hiromoto Murase, NPB pitcher
• Norihiro Nakamura, outfielder
• Katsumi Nakanishi, NPB pitcher
• Ren Nakata, NPB pitcher
• Shota Nakayama, NPB outfielder
• Yoshimitsu Nakayama, KBO pitcher
• Hiroshi Nishioka, NPB pitcher
• Hideo Nomo, pitcher
• Keiji Obiki, NPB infielder
• Ryosuke Ogata, NPB outfielder
• Heishu Ohara, NPB infielder
• Kazuo Ohara, NPB outfielder
• Minoru Ohmori, NPB outfielder
• Akinobu Okada, NPB infielder and manager
• Isami Okamoto, NPB player and manager
• Katsunori Okamoto, NPB pitcher
• Keisuke Okazaki, Japanese national team infielder
• Shigekazu Okui, NPB infielder
• Zaijiro Onodera, NPB outfielder
• Yasuo Otsuka, NPB catcher
• Takahiro Saeki, NPB outfielder
• Masashi Sajikihara, NPB pitcher
• Hideki Samejima, NPB catcher
• Hiroki Sanada, NPB pitcher
• Masayuki Sasaki, NPB outfielder
• Kazuo Satake, NPB catcher
• Masakazu Satake, Japanese national team catcher and manager
• Kimihiro Sato, Japanese national team infielder
• Yoshihiro Seo, NPB pitcher
• Yuta Shimoshikiryo, scout
• Zenko Shinobu, NPB infielder
• Kaisei Sone, NPB infielder
• Hide Sueyoshi, scout
• Taira Sumitomo, NPB infielder
• Toshio Suzuki, NPB catcher
• Shigeru Takada, NPB outfielder and manager
• Nobuhiro Takagi, NPB pitcher
• Komajiro Tamura, NPB owner; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Katsuo Tanaka, college coach; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Minoru Tanaka, NPB infielder
• Hidenori Tanoue, NPB catcher
• Sota Tanoue, NPB pitcher
• Seiichi Tarui, NPB pitcher
• Masao Teramae, NPB pitcher
• Yoshinori Toda, NPB pitcher
• Masayoshi Tokuda, minor league pitcher
• Masaru Tomita, NPB infielder
• Atsuki Tomosugi, NPB infielder
• Sadatoshi Tsujinaka, NPB pitcher
• Masatomo Uematsu, NPB pitcher
• Ryoichi Ueoka, NPB pitcher
• Osamu Uetsuji, NPB pitcher
• Hiroyuki Watanabe, NPB outfielder
• Masato Watanabe, NPB infielder
• Tsutomu Yamada, NPB outfielder
• Koki Yamaguchi, NPB outfielder
• Masahiro Yamanaka, NPB pitcher
• Hitoshi Yamamoto, NPB pitcher
• Yudai Yamamoto, NPB catcher
• Ikushi Yamanouchi, writer; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Takao Yamao, NPB outfielder
• Koji Yamasaki, NPB infielder
• Kazuteru Yamashita, NPB infielder
• Takao Yanagisawa, NPB infielder
• Akihiro Yano, NPB catcher and manager
• Masaya Yano, NPB infielder
• Naomasa Yokawa, NPB infielder
• Mitsutsugu Yokoyama, NPB outfielder
• Keisaburo Yoneda, NPB infielder
• Yasuo Yonekawa, NPB pitcher
• Daiki Yoshikawa, NPB infielder
• Masami Yoshikawa, NPB pitcher and umpire
• Kazuyoshi Yoshimoto, NPB outfielder
• Kazuhito Yoshimura, NPB infielder

People died here

• Satomi Bando, NPB pitcher
• Tadashi Hatta, NPB infielder
• Kazuo Horii, NPB infielder
• Kazuo Kageyama, NPB infielder and manager
• Shinichi Kimura, NPB infielder
• Kiyohiro Miura, NPB pitcher
• Keisuke Okamoto, NPB player
• Koichiro Sasaki, NPB pitcher
• Toru Takashima, NPB catcher
• Nobuhiro Takashiro, NPB infielder
• Motoji Takuwa, NPB pitcher
• Ichiro Tanaka, NPB outfielder
• Tatsuo Tanaka, NPB pitcher
• Yoshiro Tominaga, NPB outfielder
• Kentaro Yasui, NPB infielder
• Hisataka Yukizawa, NPB infielder

Educational establishments located here

• Higashi High School
• Hokuyo High School
• Ichioka High School
• Ichiritsu High School
• Ikuno Technical High School
• Izuo High School
• Josho Gakuen High School
• Kansai University Hokuyo High School
• Kenkoku High School
• Kitano High School
• Kokoku High School
• Meisei High School
• Minato High School
• Miyakojima Technical High School
• Naniwa High School
• Nishi High School
• Osaka High School
• Osaka Gakugei High School
• Osaka Kaisei Gakuen High School
• Osaka Metropolitan University
• Osaka Sangyo University High School
• Osaka University of Economics
• Owa High School
• Riseisha College of Medicine & Sport
• Sakuranomiya High School
• Seijo High School
• Shibuya High School
• Shimizutani High School
• St. Andrew High School
• Sumiyoshi High School
• Tennoji Commercial High School
• Tennoji High School
• Uenomiya High School
• Yodo Commercial High School
• Yodogawa Technical High School

Teams that have played here

• Kintetsu Pearls, Pacific League (1950-1958)
• Nankai Hawks, Pacific League (1950-1988)
• Taiyo-Shochiku Robins, Central League (1953-1954)
• Kintetsu Buffalo, Pacific League (1959-1961)
• Kintetsu Buffaloes, Pacific League (1962-1998)
• Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes, Pacific League (1999-2004)
• Orix Buffaloes, Pacific League (2005-Present)