Published on
Jan 18, 2026
JAPAN SPORTS NOTEBOOK | Hideki Kuriyama Honored as a Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Inductee
Hideki Kuriyama achieved acclaim as a baseball leader decades after his early retirement as a Tokyo Yakult Swallows outfielder. Most famously, he served as Shohei Ohtani's first NPB manager with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters from 2013-17. That five- …
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JAPAN Forward
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