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!important; color: #000000 !important;"><span class="note">Kihachi Enomoto</span><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Kihachi_Enomoto_1955_Scan10014.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Kihachi_Enomoto_1955_Scan10014.jpg/220px-Kihachi_Enomoto_1955_Scan10014.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="287" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Kihachi_Enomoto_1955_Scan10014.jpg/330px-Kihachi_Enomoto_1955_Scan10014.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Kihachi_Enomoto_1955_Scan10014.jpg/440px-Kihachi_Enomoto_1955_Scan10014.jpg 2x" data-file-width="473" data-file-height="617" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b><a href="/wiki/First_baseman" title="First 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colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">1972, for the <a href="/wiki/Saitama_Seibu_Lions" title="Saitama Seibu Lions">Nishitetsu Lions</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr style="background-color: #DCDCDC !important; color: #000000 !important;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">NPB statistics</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Batting_average_(baseball)" title="Batting average (baseball)">Batting average</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">.298</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Hit_(baseball)" title="Hit (baseball)">Hits</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">2,314</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Empty_Star.svg/23px-Empty_Star.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Empty_Star.svg/30px-Empty_Star.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.5em;">Induction</th><td class="infobox-data" style="padding-left:0.5em;">2016</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Kihachi Enomoto</b> (榎本喜八 <i>Enomoto Kihachi</i>, December 5, 1936 – March 14, 2012) was a Japanese former <a href="/wiki/Nippon_Professional_Baseball" title="Nippon Professional Baseball">Nippon Professional Baseball</a> <a href="/wiki/First_baseman" title="First baseman">first baseman</a>. He batted and threw left-handed. </p><p>In an illustrious career, Enomoto was a 12-time <a href="/wiki/NPB_All-Star_Game" class="mw-redirect" title="NPB All-Star Game">All-Star</a>, a 9-time <a href="/wiki/Best_Nine_Award" title="Best Nine Award">Best Nine Award</a> winner, and a <a href="/wiki/NPB_Rookie_of_the_Year" class="mw-redirect" title="NPB Rookie of the Year">Rookie of the Year</a> winner, all achieved with the <a href="/wiki/Chiba_Lotte_Marines" title="Chiba Lotte Marines">Mainichi/Daimai/Tokyo/Lotte Orions</a>. He was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/Japanese_Baseball_Hall_of_Fame" title="Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame">Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame</a> in 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kihachi_Enomoto&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Born in <a href="/wiki/Tokyo" title="Tokyo">Tokyo</a>, Enomoto attended Waseda Vocational High School. Other alumnus of the school include <a href="/wiki/Hiroshi_Arakawa" title="Hiroshi Arakawa">Hiroshi Arakawa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Akihiko_Ohya" title="Akihiko Ohya">Akihiko Ohya</a>, <a href="/wiki/Daisuke_Araki" title="Daisuke Araki">Daisuke Araki</a> and Japanese baseball legend <a href="/wiki/Sadaharu_Oh" title="Sadaharu Oh">Sadaharu Oh</a>, who would pitch against Enomoto in the 1971 <a href="/wiki/Japan_Series" title="Japan Series">Japan Series</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kihachi_Enomoto&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mainichi/Daimai/Tokyo/Lotte_Orions"><span id="Mainichi.2FDaimai.2FTokyo.2FLotte_Orions"></span>Mainichi/Daimai/Tokyo/Lotte Orions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kihachi_Enomoto&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Mainichi/Daimai/Tokyo/Lotte Orions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kihachi_Enomoto_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Kihachi_Enomoto_01.jpg/220px-Kihachi_Enomoto_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="303" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Kihachi_Enomoto_01.jpg/330px-Kihachi_Enomoto_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Kihachi_Enomoto_01.jpg/440px-Kihachi_Enomoto_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="560" data-file-height="770" /></a><figcaption>Enomoto in 1956</figcaption></figure> <p>Straight out of high school, Enomoto started his career by winning the 1955 Pacific League Rookie of the Year Award. He was also an All-Star and led the league in <a href="/wiki/Walk_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Walk (baseball)">walks</a>. He came 10th in batting average, at .298.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> He set records for batters coming directly out of high school in <a href="/wiki/Run_(baseball)" title="Run (baseball)">runs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hit_(baseball)" title="Hit (baseball)">hits</a>, <a href="/wiki/Double_(baseball)" title="Double (baseball)">doubles</a>, walks and <a href="/wiki/On-base_percentage" title="On-base percentage">on-base percentage</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-jallen_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jallen-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The next year, Enomoto yet again led the league in walks and was also an All-Star. He also received his first Best Nine Award. Despite a slight decrease in stats, Enomoto still made the All-Star team in 1957. His stats decreased yet further in 1958, but he still made the All-Star team. 1958 marked the first time that he finished with more <a href="/wiki/Strikeout" title="Strikeout">strikeouts</a> than walks. His stats rose in 1959, playing in his fifth-straight all-star game and receiving his second Best Nine Award after hitting .276. In 1960, he played in an All-Star game and took home a Best Nine Award, but he also was a serious contender for the <a href="/wiki/NPB_Most_Valuable_Player_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="NPB Most Valuable Player Award">MVP Award</a> after leading the league in batting average (.344), runs (94), hits (170), and doubles (37).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> His teammate, <a href="/wiki/Kazuhiro_Yamauchi" title="Kazuhiro Yamauchi">Kazuhiro Yamauchi</a>, would win the title. Enomoto also went 3-for-15 in the 1960 Japan Series, as the Orions were swept by the <a href="/wiki/Yokohama_DeNA_BayStars" title="Yokohama DeNA BayStars">Taiyo Whales</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> He would continue his form in 1961, hitting .331 (2nd in the league, behind <a href="/wiki/Isao_Harimoto" title="Isao Harimoto">Isao Harimoto</a>) where he would make his 7th straight All-Star game and win his 3rd straight Best Nine Award. He hit 17 home runs in 1962, setting a personal record at that point. He led the league in hits with 160 as he was once again an All-Star and Best Nine Award selection. He would continue his All-Star and Best Nine streak through 1963 and 1964, leading the league in walks and <a href="/wiki/Hit_by_pitch" title="Hit by pitch">hit by pitches</a> in the latter year, before ending both of them in 1965, when he hit only .268, his lowest since 1958. He followed his subpar 1965 season with what could arguably be his best season, leading the league in hits (167), doubles (31), total bases (272), OBP (.434), slugging (.571), and average (.351). He took home the Best Nine and was an All-Star for the 11th time, but the MVP award went to <a href="/wiki/Katsuya_Nomura" title="Katsuya Nomura">Katsuya Nomura</a>. 1967 marked the last time he would lead in any major category, with 83 walks. 1968 would be the last time he would be an All-Star (his 12th time) or a Best Nine selection (his 9th, a record). On July 21, 1968, Enomoto would get his 2,000th hit, doubling off of Hall of Famer <a href="/wiki/Keishi_Suzuki" title="Keishi Suzuki">Keishi Suzuki</a>. Aged 31 years and 7 months, he was the youngest player ever to reach the mark and the 3rd all-time.<sup id="cite_ref-jallen_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jallen-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He set more records, including setting a streak of 1,516 error-free chances from 1967 to 1968, and a .999 fielding percentage at first in 1968.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> In 1969, he hit .273, which would increase to .284 in 1970. His last year as an Orion, 1971, saw him bat .244 in just 45 games. The Orions lost the Japan Series to the <a href="/wiki/Yomiuri_Giants" title="Yomiuri Giants">Yomiuri Giants</a>, leaving Enomoto without a Japan Series title. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nishitestu_Lions">Nishitestu Lions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kihachi_Enomoto&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Nishitestu Lions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Enomoto played his last professional season in 1972, with the <a href="/wiki/Saitama_Seibu_Lions" title="Saitama Seibu Lions">Nishitetsu Lions</a>, where he would hit .233 in 61 games. He finished his career with a .298 average, 2,222 games played, 1,169 runs, 2,314 hits, 409 doubles, 246 home runs, 979 RBI, 153 steals in 237 tries and 1,062 walks to 645 strikeouts in 7,763 AB and 9,002 plate appearances.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post-baseball">Post-baseball</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kihachi_Enomoto&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Post-baseball"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Despite qualifying for the <a href="/wiki/Meikyukai" title="Meikyukai">Meikyukai</a>, Enomoto never participated in their activities and is not deemed a member. <a href="/wiki/Hiromitsu_Ochiai" title="Hiromitsu Ochiai">Hiromitsu Ochiai</a> is the only other player to turn down membership. Following his retirement, he worked for a <a href="/wiki/Parking_garage" class="mw-redirect" title="Parking garage">parking garage</a> management company, where he wrote about baseball. He died of <a href="/wiki/Colon_cancer" class="mw-redirect" title="Colon cancer">colon cancer</a> in 2012 and was posthumously inducted into the <a href="/wiki/Japanese_Baseball_Hall_of_Fame" title="Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame">Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame</a> in 2016.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kihachi_Enomoto&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://english.baseball-museum.or.jp/baseball_hallo/detail/detail_190.html">"ENOMOTO, Kihachi"</a>. <i>Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Takahashi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1968: <i>None</i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1969: <a href="/wiki/Michiyo_Arito" title="Michiyo Arito">Arito</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1970: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Michio_Sato&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michio Sato (page does not exist)">M. Sato</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1971: <a href="/wiki/Yasuo_Minagawa" title="Yasuo Minagawa">Minagawa</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1972: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hajime_Kat%C5%8D_(baseball)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hajime Katō (baseball) (page does not exist)">Kato</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1973: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Satoshi_Niimi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Satoshi Niimi (page does not exist)">Niimi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1974: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Masaharu_Mitsui&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Masaharu Mitsui (page does not exist)">Mitsui</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1975: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Takashi_Yamaguchi_(baseball)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Takashi Yamaguchi (baseball) (page does not exist)">Yamaguchi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1976: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Manabu_Fujita_(baseball)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Manabu Fujita (baseball) (page does not exist)">M. Fujita</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1977: <a href="/wiki/Yoshinori_Sato_(baseball,_born_1954)" title="Yoshinori Sato (baseball, born 1954)">Y. Sato</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1978: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Yukihiro_Murakami&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yukihiro Murakami (page does not exist)">Murakami</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1979: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hirohisa_Matsunuma&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hirohisa Matsunuma (page does not exist)">Matsunuma</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1980: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Isamu_Kida&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Isamu Kida (page does not exist)">Kida</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1981: <a href="/wiki/Hiromichi_Ishige" title="Hiromichi Ishige">Ishige</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1982: <a href="/wiki/Daijiro_Oishi" title="Daijiro Oishi">Oishi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1983: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tadami_Futamura&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tadami Futamura (page does not exist)">Futamura</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1984: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hiromasa_Fujita&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hiromasa Fujita (page does not exist)">H. Fujita</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1985: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Terumitsu_Kumano&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Terumitsu Kumano (page does not exist)">Kumano</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1986: <a href="/wiki/Kazuhiro_Kiyohara" title="Kazuhiro Kiyohara">Kiyohara</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1987: <a href="/wiki/Hideyuki_Awano" title="Hideyuki Awano">Awano</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1988: <a href="/wiki/Ryoji_Moriyama" title="Ryoji Moriyama">Moriyama</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1989: <a href="/wiki/Tsutomu_Sakai" title="Tsutomu Sakai">Sakai</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1990: <a href="/wiki/Hideo_Nomo" title="Hideo Nomo">Nomo</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1991: <a href="/wiki/Shigetoshi_Hasegawa" title="Shigetoshi Hasegawa">Hasegawa</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1992: <a href="/wiki/Hiroshi_Takamura" title="Hiroshi Takamura">Takamura</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1993: <a href="/wiki/Kento_Sugiyama" title="Kento Sugiyama">Sugiyama</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1994: <a href="/wiki/Hidekazu_Watanabe" title="Hidekazu Watanabe">Watanabe</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1995: <a href="/wiki/Masafumi_Hirai" title="Masafumi Hirai">Hirai</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1996: <a href="/wiki/Makoto_Kaneko_(baseball)" title="Makoto Kaneko (baseball)">Kaneko</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1997: <a href="/wiki/Makoto_Kosaka" title="Makoto Kosaka">Kosaka</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1998: <a href="/wiki/Tatsuya_Ozeki" title="Tatsuya Ozeki">Ozeki</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1999: <a href="/wiki/Daisuke_Matsuzaka" title="Daisuke Matsuzaka">Matsuzaka</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2000: <i>None</i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2001: <a href="/wiki/Masanobu_Okubo" title="Masanobu Okubo">Okubo</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2002: <a href="/wiki/Itsuki_Shoda" title="Itsuki Shoda">Shoda</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2003: <a href="/wiki/Tsuyoshi_Wada" title="Tsuyoshi Wada">Wada</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2004: <a href="/wiki/Koji_Mise" title="Koji Mise">Mise</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2005: <a href="/wiki/Yasutomo_Kubo" title="Yasutomo Kubo">Kubo</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2006: <a href="/wiki/Tomoya_Yagi" title="Tomoya Yagi">Yagi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2007: <a href="/wiki/Masahiro_Tanaka" title="Masahiro Tanaka">M. 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color:#003; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #003, inset -2px -2px 0 #003;;width:1%">1950s inductees</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Matsutar%C5%8D_Sh%C5%8Driki" title="Matsutarō Shōriki">Matsutarō Shōriki</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hiroshi_Hiraoka&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hiroshi Hiraoka (page does not exist)">Hiroshi Hiraoka</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yukio_Aoi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yukio Aoi (page does not exist)">Yukio Aoi</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shin_Hashido&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shin Hashido (page does not exist)">Shin Hashido</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiyoshi_Oshikawa" title="Kiyoshi Oshikawa">Kiyoshi Oshikawa</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jiro_Kuji&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jiro Kuji (page does not exist)">Jiro Kuji</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eiji_Sawamura" title="Eiji Sawamura">Eiji Sawamura</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iso_Abe" class="mw-redirect" title="Iso Abe">Iso Abe</a> (1959)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:white; color:#003; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #003, inset -2px -2px 0 #003;;width:1%">1960s inductees</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Victor_Starffin" title="Victor Starffin">Victor Starffin</a> (1960)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yutaka_Ikeda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yutaka Ikeda (page does not exist)">Yutaka Ikeda</a> (1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haruyasu_Nakajima" title="Haruyasu Nakajima">Haruyasu Nakajima</a> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tadashi_Wakabayashi" title="Tadashi Wakabayashi">Tadashi Wakabayashi</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masaru_Kageura" title="Masaru Kageura">Masaru Kageura</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tetsuharu_Kawakami" title="Tetsuharu Kawakami">Tetsuharu Kawakami</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsunetaro_Moriyama" title="Tsunetaro Moriyama">Tsunetaro Moriyama</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kazuto_Tsuruoka" title="Kazuto Tsuruoka">Kazuto Tsuruoka</a> (1969)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:white; color:#003; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #003, inset -2px -2px 0 #003;;width:1%">1970s inductees</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shunichi_Amachi" title="Shunichi Amachi">Shunichi Amachi</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nobuaki_Nidegawa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nobuaki Nidegawa (page does not exist)">Nobuaki Nidegawa</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shuichi_Ishimoto&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shuichi Ishimoto (page does not exist)">Shuichi Ishimoto</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sadayoshi_Fujimoto" title="Sadayoshi Fujimoto">Sadayoshi Fujimoto</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fumio_Fujimura" title="Fumio Fujimura">Fumio Fujimura</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hideo_Fujimoto" title="Hideo Fujimoto">Hideo Fujimoto</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shigeru_Mizuhara" title="Shigeru Mizuhara">Shigeru Mizuhara</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michio_Nishizawa" title="Michio Nishizawa">Michio Nishizawa</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenjiro_Matsuki" title="Kenjiro Matsuki">Kenjiro Matsuki</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shinji_Hamazaki" title="Shinji Hamazaki">Shinji Hamazaki</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Takehiko_Bessho" title="Takehiko Bessho">Takehiko Bessho</a> (1979)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:white; color:#003; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #003, inset -2px -2px 0 #003;;width:1%">1980s inductees</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hiroshi_Ohshita" title="Hiroshi Ohshita">Hiroshi Ohshita</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Makoto_Kozuru" title="Makoto Kozuru">Makoto Kozuru</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shigeru_Chiba_(baseball)" title="Shigeru Chiba (baseball)">Shigeru Chiba</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tokuji_Iida" title="Tokuji Iida">Tokuji Iida</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoshiyuki_Iwamoto" title="Yoshiyuki Iwamoto">Yoshiyuki Iwamoto</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osamu_Mihara" title="Osamu Mihara">Osamu Mihara</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shinji_Kirihara&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shinji Kirihara (page does not exist)">Shinji Kirihara</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shigeru_Sugishita" title="Shigeru Sugishita">Shigeru Sugishita</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Katsumi_Shiraishi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Katsumi Shiraishi (page does not exist)">Katsumi Shiraishi</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atsushi_Aramaki" title="Atsushi Aramaki">Atsushi Aramaki</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Takeo_Akuta" title="Takeo Akuta">Takeo Akuta</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shigeo_Nagashima" title="Shigeo Nagashima">Shigeo Nagashima</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaoru_Bettou" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaoru Bettou">Kaoru Bettou</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masaichi_Nagata" title="Masaichi Nagata">Masaichi Nagata</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saburo_Yokozawa" title="Saburo Yokozawa">Saburo Yokozawa</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yukio_Nishimoto" title="Yukio Nishimoto">Yukio Nishimoto</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masaichi_Kaneda" title="Masaichi Kaneda">Masaichi Kaneda</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hidenosuke_Shima&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hidenosuke Shima (page does not exist)">Hidenosuke Shima</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katsuya_Nomura" title="Katsuya Nomura">Katsuya Nomura</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jiro_Noguchi" title="Jiro Noguchi">Jiro Noguchi</a> (1989)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:white; color:#003; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #003, inset -2px -2px 0 #003;;width:1%">1990s inductees</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Juzo_Sanada" title="Juzo Sanada">Juzo Sanada</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isao_Harimoto" title="Isao Harimoto">Isao Harimoto</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shigeru_Makino" title="Shigeru Makino">Shigeru Makino</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Osamu_Tsutsui&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Osamu Tsutsui (page does not exist)">Osamu Tsutsui</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kichiro_Shimaoka&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kichiro Shimaoka (page does not exist)">Kichiro Shimaoka</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tatsuro_Hirooka" title="Tatsuro Hirooka">Tatsuro Hirooka</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michinori_Tsubouchi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michinori Tsubouchi (page does not exist)">Michinori Tsubouchi</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masao_Yoshida_(baseball)" title="Masao Yoshida (baseball)">Masao Yoshida</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoshio_Yoshida_(baseball)" title="Yoshio Yoshida (baseball)">Yoshio Yoshida</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kazuhisa_Inao" title="Kazuhisa Inao">Kazuhisa Inao</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minoru_Murayama" title="Minoru Murayama">Minoru Murayama</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sadaharu_Oh" title="Sadaharu Oh">Sadaharu Oh</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wally_Yonamine" title="Wally Yonamine">Wally Yonamine</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shosei_Go" title="Shosei Go">Shosei Go</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tadashi_Sugiura" title="Tadashi Sugiura">Tadashi Sugiura</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tokichiro_Ishii&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tokichiro Ishii (page does not exist)">Tokichiro Ishii</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Motoshi_Fujita" title="Motoshi Fujita">Motoshi Fujita</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sachio_Kinugasa" title="Sachio Kinugasa">Sachio Kinugasa</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katsuo_Osugi" title="Katsuo Osugi">Katsuo Osugi</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Futoshi_Nakanishi" title="Futoshi Nakanishi">Futoshi Nakanishi</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoshinori_Hirose" title="Yoshinori Hirose">Yoshinori Hirose</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Takeshi_Koba" title="Takeshi Koba">Takeshi Koba</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sadao_Kondo" class="mw-redirect" title="Sadao Kondo">Sadao Kondo</a> (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:white; color:#003; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #003, inset -2px -2px 0 #003;;width:1%">2000s inductees</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tetsuya_Yoneda" title="Tetsuya Yoneda">Tetsuya Yoneda</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rikuo_Nemoto" title="Rikuo Nemoto">Rikuo Nemoto</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masaaki_Koyama" title="Masaaki Koyama">Masaaki Koyama</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kazuhiro_Yamauchi" title="Kazuhiro Yamauchi">Kazuhiro Yamauchi</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keishi_Suzuki" title="Keishi Suzuki">Keishi Suzuki</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yutaka_Fukumoto" title="Yutaka Fukumoto">Yutaka Fukumoto</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenjiro_Tamiya" title="Kenjiro Tamiya">Kenjiro Tamiya</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lefty_O%27Doul" title="Lefty O'Doul">Lefty O'Doul</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masaoka_Shiki" title="Masaoka Shiki">Masaoka Shiki</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toshiharu_Ueda" title="Toshiharu Ueda">Toshiharu Ueda</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Junzo_Sekine" title="Junzo Sekine">Junzo Sekine</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horace_Wilson_(professor)" title="Horace Wilson (professor)">Horace Wilson</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sakae_Suzuka&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sakae Suzuka (page does not exist)">Sakae Suzuka</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akira_Ogi" class="mw-redirect" title="Akira Ogi">Akira Ogi</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noboru_Akiyama" title="Noboru Akiyama">Noboru Akiyama</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Choji_Murata" title="Choji Murata">Choji Murata</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masaaki_Mori_(baseball)" title="Masaaki Mori (baseball)">Masaaki Mori</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Masayori_Shimura&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Masayori Shimura (page does not exist)">Masayori Shimura</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiromitsu_Kadota" title="Hiromitsu Kadota">Hiromitsu Kadota</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morimichi_Takagi" title="Morimichi Takagi">Morimichi Takagi</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hisashi_Yamada" title="Hisashi Yamada">Hisashi Yamada</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yasumitsu_Toyoda" title="Yasumitsu Toyoda">Yasumitsu Toyoda</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiromori_Kawashima" title="Hiromori Kawashima">Hiromori Kawashima</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Takao_Kajimoto" title="Takao Kajimoto">Takao Kajimoto</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Reiichi_Matsunaga&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Reiichi Matsunaga (page does not exist)">Reiichi Matsunaga</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koji_Yamamoto_(baseball,_born_1946)" title="Koji Yamamoto (baseball, born 1946)">Koji Yamamoto</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsuneo_Horiuchi" title="Tsuneo Horiuchi">Tsuneo Horiuchi</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsutomu_Wakamatsu" title="Tsutomu Wakamatsu">Tsutomu Wakamatsu</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seiichi_Shima" title="Seiichi Shima">Seiichi Shima</a> (2008)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:white; color:#003; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #003, inset -2px -2px 0 #003;;width:1%">2010s inductees</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Osamu_Higashio" title="Osamu Higashio">Osamu Higashio</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiromitsu_Ochiai" title="Hiromitsu Ochiai">Hiromitsu Ochiai</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mutsuo_Minagawa" title="Mutsuo Minagawa">Mutsuo Minagawa</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manabu_Kitabeppu" title="Manabu Kitabeppu">Manabu Kitabeppu</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsunemi_Tsuda" title="Tsunemi Tsuda">Tsunemi Tsuda</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yutaka_Ohno" title="Yutaka Ohno">Yutaka Ohno</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hideo_Nomo" title="Hideo Nomo">Hideo Nomo</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koji_Akiyama" title="Koji Akiyama">Koji Akiyama</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kazuhiro_Sasaki" title="Kazuhiro Sasaki">Kazuhiro Sasaki</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atsuya_Furuta" title="Atsuya Furuta">Atsuya Furuta</a> (2015)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Kihachi Enomoto</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kimiyasu_Kudoh" class="mw-redirect" title="Kimiyasu Kudoh">Kimiyasu Kudoh</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masaki_Saito_(baseball)" title="Masaki Saito (baseball)">Masaki Saito</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsutomu_Ito" class="mw-redirect" title="Tsutomu Ito">Tsutomu Ito</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masaji_Hiramatsu" title="Masaji Hiramatsu">Masaji Hiramatsu</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Senichi_Hoshino" title="Senichi Hoshino">Senichi Hoshino</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hideki_Matsui" title="Hideki Matsui">Hideki Matsui</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tomoaki_Kanemoto" title="Tomoaki Kanemoto">Tomoaki Kanemoto</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kazuyoshi_Tatsunami" title="Kazuyoshi Tatsunami">Kazuyoshi Tatsunami</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiroshi_Gondoh" title="Hiroshi Gondoh">Hiroshi Gondoh</a> (2019)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:white; color:#003; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #003, inset -2px -2px 0 #003;;width:1%">2020s inductees</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Koichi_Tabuchi" class="mw-redirect" title="Koichi Tabuchi">Koichi Tabuchi</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kazuo_Sayama&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kazuo Sayama (page does not exist)">Kazuo Sayama</a> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katsuji_Kawashima" title="Katsuji Kawashima">Katsuji Kawashima</a> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shigeyoshi_Matsumae" title="Shigeyoshi Matsumae">Shigeyoshi Matsumae</a> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shingo_Takatsu" title="Shingo Takatsu">Shingo Takatsu</a> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masahiro_Yamamoto_(baseball)" title="Masahiro Yamamoto (baseball)">Masa Yamamoto</a> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Ram%C3%ADrez" title="Alex Ramírez">Alex Ramírez</a> (2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Randy_Bass" title="Randy Bass">Randy Bass</a> (2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Y%C5%ABji_Koseki" title="Yūji Koseki">Yūji Koseki</a> (2023)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox authority-control" aria-labelledby="Authority_control_databases_frameless&#124;text-top&#124;10px&#124;alt=Edit_this_at_Wikidata&#124;link=https&#58;//www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11120338#identifiers&#124;class=noprint&#124;Edit_this_at_Wikidata" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Authority_control_databases_frameless&#124;text-top&#124;10px&#124;alt=Edit_this_at_Wikidata&#124;link=https&#58;//www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11120338#identifiers&#124;class=noprint&#124;Edit_this_at_Wikidata" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Help:Authority_control" title="Help:Authority control">Authority control databases</a> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11120338#identifiers" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">International</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><ul><li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://viaf.org/viaf/252749952">VIAF</a></span></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">National</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><ul><li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://id.ndl.go.jp/auth/ndlna/00996443">Japan</a></span></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; 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