Tokyo Prefecture
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Tokyo is the largest city in Japan, forming its own administrative subdivision with a population of over 13 million. Its metropolitan area, around Tokyo Bay, has over 40 million inhabitants, making it the largest urban area in the world. Formerly named Edo, it replaced Kyoto as the country's capital in 1868. and has grown extremely rapidly ever since, in spite of sustaining massive damage during World War II.
Tokyo is located on the southern side of Honshu Island, the largest island in the Japanese archipelago, on the western shore of Tokyo Bay, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean. the cities of Kawasaki and Yokohama are located to the south, and Chiba is across the bay, to the east.
Tokyo hosted the 1964 Olympics, where baseball was played as an exhibition sports, as well as the 2020 Olympics, which were pushed back to 2021 by the COVID-19 pandemic where it was part of the official medal program.
Major League Baseball has scheduled season-opening series at the city's main ballpark, the Tokyo Dome, on a number of occasions, the first time in 2000.
Teams from Tokyo have done especially well in the Little League World Series, winning the tournament in 1976, 2001, 2003, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2017.
People born here (unspecified settlements)[edit]
- Jushiro Abe, NPB player
- Sho Akiyama, Japanese national team pitcher
- Yusuke Arakawa, minor league pitcher
- Yoriyasu Arima, NPB owner; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
- Shinobu Ando, NPB manager
- Jim Bowie, infielder
- Yozaburo Chihara, NPB infielder
- Steve Chitren, pitcher
- Shintaro Fukushima, executive; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
- Kuranosuke Furuya, NPB player
- Kimio Gomyo, Japanese national team coach
- Tatsuro Hayashi, Japanese national team outfielder
- Hiraoka Hiroshi, Japanese Hall of Fame member
- Taisuke Ishimaru, minor league pitcher
- Fumio Isobe, Japanese national team outfielder
- Masaharu Kasahara, NPB umpire
- Miku Kayano, Japan women's team pitcher
- Ryo Kinami, Japanese national team catcher
- Masahito Kohiyama, NPB pitcher
- Koichi Kotaka, Japanese national team pitcher
- Yuya Kubo, NPB pitcher
- Ryo Kumagai, minor league pitcher
- Daisuke Miyake, NPB manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
- Daisuke Miyashita, CPBL pitcher
- Junichi Mochizuki, NPB pitcher
- Tsunetaro Moriyama, Japanese Baseball Hall of Famer
- Shigeharu Murata, NPB pitcher
- Tomomi Nakada, Japanese women's national team outfielder
- Kenichi Nakano, NPB infielder
- Takeji Nakano, college coach; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
- Ekuo Nakaya, Japanese national team infielder
- Yoshio Nakazawa, pioneer; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
- Yuji Nerei, minor league outfielder
- Justin Novak, coach
- Michiori Okabe, Japanese national team infielder-outfielder
- Terutoshi Okiyama, NPB outfielder
- Ken Onuki, NPB outfielder and umpire
- Yasuyuki Saigo, Japanese national team infielder
- Masahisa Sakaguchi, Japanese national team coach
- Toyo Sawa, NPB manager
- Giichiro Shiraki, NPB pitcher
- Ikko Sumi, minor league catcher
- Ryuji Suzuki, NPB executive; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
- Alonso Tenya, Peruvian national team pitcher-outfielder
- Hiroya Tomizawa, NPB umpire
- Akitada Tsukuda, NPB catcher
- Yushi Uchimura, commissioner; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
- Zenpei Yamazaki, NPB outfielder
- Hideo Yoshida, Japanese national team catcher
People died here (unspecified settlements)[edit]
- Isoo Abe, pioneer; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
- Hiroshi Arakawa, NPB outfielder and manager
- Takeo Daigo, NPB catcher
- Masayuki Dobashi, NPB pitcher and manager
- Shozo Doi, NPB infielder and manager
- Shosei Go, NPB outfielder; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame and Taiwan Baseball Hall of Fame
- Tomoo Hirooka, writer; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
- Sho Horiuchi, NPB pitcher
- Yoshio Inoue, NPB pitcher
- Isao Ito, NPB catcher
- Yuji Iwamoto, Japanese national team infielder
- Masaichi Kaneda, NPB pitcher and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
- Tomehiro Kaneda, NPB pitcher
- Takeshi Koba, NPB infielder and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
- Sadao Kondo, NPB manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
- Tokuro Konishi, NPB manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
- Yuji Koseki, composer; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
- Katsuhiko Kumazaki, NPB commissioner
- Shiki Masaoka, writer; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
- Toru Mori, NPB outfielder
- Futoshi Nakanishi, NPB infielder and manager
- Yasuchika Negoro, NPB executive
- Futoshi Nakanishi, NPB infielder and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
- Leslie O'Connor, general manager
- Genzaburo Okada, NPB catcher and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
- Yasunori Oshima, NPB infielder
- Takumi Otomo, NPB pitcher
- Junzo Sekine, NPB outfielder and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
- Shigeru Sugishita, NPB pitcher and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
- Kazumi Takahashi, NPB pitcher
- Hiroyoshi Takano, NPB pitcher
- Yoshio Tanaka, NPB pitcher
- Kazuhiro Yamauchi, NPB outfielder; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
- Takao Yato, NPB outfielder and manager
- Katsutoyo Yoshida, NPB outfielder
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