Akira Matsumoto

Honestly, Akira Matsumoto is one of those guys where the mystery is kind of the whole appeal. Born in 1977 in Kumamoto, 180 cm tall, a baseball player — that's the skeleton, and the rest is left to the imagination. Kumamoto isn't exactly the factory that churns out professional athletes the way the big cities do, so just making it to that level already says something about the grind it took. Not enough on the record to say much more with confidence, but sometimes a sparse profile is its own kind of statement: the work spoke, the stats are out there somewhere, and he didn't need the fanfare.

Akira Matsumoto is a Japanese baseball player born on August 30, 1977, in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. He stands 180 cm tall. Beyond his birthplace and physical stature, most personal and career details remain private or unknown.

Name (English)

Akira Matsumoto

Name (Japanese)

松本輝

Reading

まつもと あきら

Born

August 30, 1977 (age 48)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Snake

Origin

Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan

Height

180cm

Occupation

Baseball Player

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BE%E6%9C%AC%E8%BC%9D
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11531324

Tags

• From Kumamoto Prefecture
• Baseball Player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.