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
• Hiromasa Arai, NPB outfielder
• Hideto Asamura, NPB infielder
• Saburo Asaoka, NPB pitcher
• Masao Date, amateur player; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Soichi Fujita, NPB player and manager
• Yutaka Fukumoto, NPB outfielder
• Kei Hashimoto, minor league pitcher
• Fumio Hashizume, NPB pitcher
• Shozo Higuchi, NPB outfielder
• Mitsuyasu Hirano, NPB outfielder
• Ryosuke Hirata, NPB outfielder
• Tomoo Hirooka, writer; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Mun-jong Hong, NPB outfielder
• Ritsuo Horimoto, NPB pitcher
• Shuhei Ichieda, NPB infielder
• Hiroaki Inoue, NPB outfielder
• Yoshiaki Inoue, NPB pitcher
• Yoshihiro Ito, Japanese national team coach
• Kazuo Kageyama, NPB infielder and manager
• Tadayoshi Kajioka, NPB pitcher
• Tsutomu Kameyama, NPB outfielder
• Motoyasu Kaneshiro, NPB pitcher
• Kazuo Kasahara, NPB outfielder and manager
• Minoru Kasamatsu, NPB pitcher
• Shinsaku Katahira, NPB infielder
• Masaki Kato, NPB outfielder
• Tatsuhiko Kinjoh, NPB outfielder
• Shinji Kirihara, amateur infielder; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Yukihiro Kubo, NPB pitcher
• Hiroki Kuroda, pitcher
• Toshiyuki Kitagawa, NPB infielder
• Katsuhiko Maekawa, NPB pitcher
• Naoki Matoba, NPB catcher
• Jun Matsui, NPB catcher
• Yukitsura Matsumoto, NPB pitcher
• Ryujiro Matsutani, NPB pitcher
• Hajime Miki, NPB infielder and manager
• Koichi Morita, NPB pitcher
• Reo Moriyasu, Japanese national team pitcher
• Minoru Murakami, NPB executive; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Norihiro Nakamura, outfielder
• Katsumi Nakanishi, NPB pitcher
• Ren Nakata, NPB pitcher
• Hiroshi Nishioka, NPB pitcher
• Hideo Nomo, pitcher
• Keiji Obiki, NPB infielder
• Akinobu Okada, NPB infielder and manager
• Isami Okamoto, NPB player and manager
• Keisuke Okazaki, Japanese national team infielder
• Yasuo Otsuka, NPB catcher
• Takahiro Saeki, NPB outfielder
• Hiroki Sanada, NPB pitcher
• Masakazu Satake, Japanese national team catcher and manager
• Kimihiro Sato, Japanese national team infielder
• Yoshihiro Seo, NPB pitcher
• 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
• Hidenori Tanoue, NPB catcher
• Seiichi Tarui, NPB pitcher
• Yoshinori Toda, NPB pitcher
• Masaru Tomita, NPB infielder
• Masatomo Uematsu, NPB pitcher
• Hiroyuki Watanabe, NPB outfielder
• Masato Watanabe, NPB infielder
• Yudai Yamamoto, NPB catcher
• Ikushi Yamanouchi, writer; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Akihiro Yano, NPB catcher and manager
• Masaya Yano, NPB infielder
• Yasuo Yonekawa, NPB pitcher
• Masami Yoshikawa, NPB pitcher and umpire
• 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
• Kiyohiro Miura, NPB pitcher
• Koichiro Sasaki, NPB pitcher
• Motoji Takuwa, NPB pitcher
• Hisataka Yukizawa, NPB infielder

Educational establishments located here

• Hokuyo High School
• Ichioka High School
• Ichiritsu High School
• Ikuno Kogyo High School
• Izuo High School
• Josho Gakuen High School
• Kenkoku High School
• Kitano High School
• Kokoku High School
• Meisei High School
• Minato High School
• Momoyama Gakuin High School
• Naniwa High School
• Osaka High School
• Osaka Gakugei High School
• Osaka Kaisei Gakuen High School
• Osaka Metropolitan University
• Osaka Nishi High School
• Osaka Sangyo University High School
• Osaka Sports University
• Osaka University of Economics
• Owa High School
• Riseisha College of Medicine & Sport
• Sakuranomiya High School
• Seijo High School
• Shibuya High School
• Tennoji High School
• Tennoji Shogyo High School
• Uenomiya High School
• Yodo Shogyo High School
• Yodogawa Kogyo 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)