Hiroshima, Hiroshima

Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture and a major city in Japan.

It was almost completely destroyed when the first atomic bomb was dropped on the city on August 6, 1945, in the last days of World War II.

Teams that have played here

• Hiroshima Carp, Central League (1950-1967)
• Hiroshima Toyo Carp, Central League (1968-Present)

People born here

• Kohei Arihara, pitcher
• Masashi Fujiwara, NPB pitcher
• Isao Harimoto, NPB outfielder; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Kenta Ishida, NPB pitcher
• Koichi Isobe, NPB outfielder
• Takahiro Iwamoto, NPB outfielder
• Hiroyuki Kamegawa, Japanese national team pitcher
• Tomoaki Kanemoto, NPB outfielder and manager
• Junichi Katayama, Japanese national team pitcher
• Tetsuji Mende, NPB pitcher
• Sho Nakata, NPB outfielder
• Wataru Nonin, NPB infielder and manager
• Ryota Okumoto, New Zealand national team pitcher
• Atsuyoshi Otake, college coach
• Yataro Sakamoto, NPB pitcher
• Katsumi Shiraishi, NPB infielder and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Takeo Tabe, amateur infielder; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Kazuto Taguchi, NPB pitcher
• Shingo Takatsu, pitcher
• Tsutomu Takeda, executive; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Mitsuo Tatsukawa, NPB catcher and manager
• Kazuyoshi Yamamoto, NPB outfielder and manager
• Kazuyuki Yamamoto, NPB pitcher
• Taisuke Yamaoka, NPB pitcher
• Ryuzo Yamasaki, NPB outfielder
• Yuki Yanagita, NPB outfielder
• Kenichi Zenimura, "Father of Japanese American Baseball"

People who died here

• Takuya Kimura, NPB infielder
• Kazuyoshi Yamamoto, NPB outfielder and manager

Educational Establishments

• Hiroshima High School
• Hiroshima Institute of Technology
• Hiroshima Niho High School
• Hiroshima Prefectural Technical High School
• Hiroshima Shinjo Junior-Senior High School
• Hiroshima University of Economics