Hayato Arakaki plays for a baseball team that competes in what Nippon Professional Baseball league?
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Hayato Arakaki Hayato Arakaki (新垣 勇人 , Arakaki Hayato ) is a Japanese professional baseball player. He was born on October 21, 1985. He debuted in 2013 for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters.
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Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters The Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (北海道日本ハムファイターズ , Hokkaidō Nippon-Hamu Faitāzu ) are a Japanese professional baseball team based in Sapporo, Hokkaidō. They compete in the Pacific League of Nippon Professional Baseball, playing the majority of their home games at the Sapporo Dome. The Fighters also host a select number of regional home games in cities across Hokkaidō, including Hakodate, Asahikawa, Kushiro, and Obihiro. The team's name comes from its parent organization, Nippon Ham, a major Japanese food processing company.
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Masato Furuno Masato Furuno (古野 正人 , Furuno Masato , born September 27, 1986 in Takarazuka, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan) is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
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Yomiuri Giants The Yomiuri Giants (読売ジャイアンツ , Yomiuri Jaiantsu ) are a professional baseball team based in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. The team competes in the Central League in Nippon Professional Baseball. They play their home games in the Tokyo Dome, opened in 1988. The team's owner is the Yomiuri Group, a media conglomerate which includes two newspapers and a television network.
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Eiji Shotsu Eiji Shotsu (正津 英志 , "Shotsu Eiji" , born in Fukui, Japan) is a Japanese professional Nippon Professional Baseball player. He is currently with the Saitama Seibu Lions in Japan's Pacific League.
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Masataka Yoshida Masataka Yoshida (吉田 正尚, born July 15, 1993 in Fukui, Fukui Prefecture) is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Orix Buffaloes in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He has played for the Buffaloes since 2016.
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Tohto University Baseball League Tohto University Baseball League (東都大学野球連盟,Tōto daigaku yakyū renmei) is an intercollegiate baseball league that features 21 prominent universities in the Tokyo area.
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Eastern League (Japanese baseball) The Eastern League (イースタン・リーグ ) is one of the two minor leagues ("ni-gun") of Japanese professional baseball. The league is owned and managed by the Central League of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Teams in the Eastern League generally play an 80-game schedule every year.
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2002 Nippon Professional Baseball season The 2002 Nippon Professional Baseball season ended with the Yomiuri Giants defeating the Seibu Lions in the 2002 Japan Series 4 games to 0.
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Nagisa Arakaki Nagisa Arakaki (新垣 渚 , "Arakaki Nagisa" , born May 9, 1980 in Naha, Okinawa) is a former Japanese professional baseball player. He is currently with the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. Despite having one of the best fastballs and sliders of anyone in the league, Arakaki has battled control problems and injuries throughout his career. In 2007, Arakaki set the NPB record for most wild pitches in a season with 21, breaking Kazuhisa Ishii's record.
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Norihito Kaneto Norihito Kaneto (金刃 憲人 , "Kaneto Norihito" , born April 10, 1984 in Amagasaki, Hyōgo) is a Nippon Professional Baseball player for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in Japan's Pacific League.
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2016 Nippon Professional Baseball draft The 2016 Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Draft was held on 20 October 2016 at the Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa to assign amateur baseball players to the NPB. It was arranged with the special cooperation of Taisho Pharmaceutical Co. with official naming rights. The draft was officially called "The Professional Baseball Draft Meeting supported by Lipovitan D".
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Toshiya Nakashima Toshiya Nakashima (中島 俊哉, born June 10, 1980 in Chikugo, Fukuoka) is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
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Pacific League The Pacific League (パシフィック・リーグ , Pashifikku Rīgu ) or Pa League (パリーグ , Pa Rīgu ) is one of the two professional baseball leagues constituting Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan. The winner of the league championship competes against the winner in the Central League for the annual Japan Series. It currently consists of six teams from around Japan.
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Jin Nakatani Jin Nakatani (中谷仁, born May 5, 1979) is a Japanese professional baseball catcher for the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He previously played for the Hanshin Tigers in 2002 and the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in 2006 , and from 2008 to 2011 .
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Orix Orix Corporation (オリックス株式会社 , Orikkusu Kabushiki-gaisha ) , styled as ORIX, is a financial services group headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, and Osaka, Japan. It is also known as the majority owner of the Orix Buffaloes baseball team in Nippon Professional Baseball.
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2013 Japan Series The 2013 Konami Japan Series was the 64th edition of Nippon Professional Baseball's (NPB) championship series known colloquially as the Japan Series. The best-of-seven playoff was won by the Pacific League champion Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in seven games over the Central League champion Yomiuri Giants. It was the Eagles' first Japan Series appearance and their first win since the team's creation in 2005. The series began on Saturday, October 26, 2013 and ended on Sunday, November 3, 2013 at the Miyagi Baseball Stadium in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. Eagles' starting pitcher Manabu Mima, who was the winning pitcher in Games 3 and 7, was named the Japan Series Most Valuable Player (MVP).
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Hideki Sunaga Hideki Sunaga (須永 英輝 , Sunaga Hideki , born October 28, 1985 in Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan) is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters.
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Nobuhiko Matsunaka Nobuhiko Matsunaka (松中 信彦 , Matsunaka Nobuhiko , born December 26, 1973 in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto, Japan) is a former left fielder and designated hitter for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.
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Akira Nakamura (baseball) Akira Nakamura (中村 晃, born November 5, 1989) is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
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Shogo Arai (baseball) Shogo Arai (荒井 昭吾 , Arai Shōgo , born July 21, 1972, Nerima Ward, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese former professional baseball infielder. He played for the Nippon-Ham Fighters in the Pacific League from 1994 to 1998.
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Kano baseball team The Kano baseball team (Japanese: 嘉農野球部 , Hepburn: Kanō yakyūbu ) , officially the Kagi Agricultural and Forestry School baseball team (嘉義農林學校野球部 , Kagi Nōrin gakkō yakyūbu ) , was a Taiwanese baseball team established in 1928 in Japanese Formosa. The team was a motley crew that consisted of Han Chinese (Hoklo and Hakka), Taiwanese aborigines, and Japanese players. The high school baseball team in Kagi (modern-day Chiayi) qualified to represent the island at Koshien, Japan’s long-running nationwide high school baseball tournament, in 1931. Performing beyond all expectations, the underdog team miraculously went on to the championship game before finally losing to a powerful Japanese squad. The Kano side claimed second place in Japan's celebrated national high school tournament, Koshien, where a total of 631 high schools teams from throughout Japan’s empire competed.