Akira Niho

Akira Niho is the kind of guy who makes you appreciate how quietly brutal the road to professional baseball actually is. Born in 1990 in Yukuhashi, Fukuoka — not exactly a city that shows up in highlight reels — he still made it to the pro level, which already tells you something about the grinding, unglamorous dedication that had to go into that. I'll be honest, I don't know his stat lines cold, but that's almost beside the point — baseball at that level is mostly about the ten thousand hours of practice that never made anyone's feed. He's got that quiet regional-Japan work ethic energy, and I respect it.

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Akira Niho is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher born on May 18, 1990, in Yukuhashi, Fukuoka Prefecture. Standing 182 cm tall, he was drafted as a developmental player by the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in 2008 and pitched for SoftBank, the Hanshin Tigers and the Chiba Lotte Marines before retiring in 2024.

Name (English)

Akira Niho

Name (Japanese)

二保旭

Reading

にほ あきら

Born

May 18, 1990 (age 36)

Origin

Yukuhashi, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Height

182cm

Occupation

Baseball Player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Horse

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/niho.akira_34/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%8C%E4%BF%9D%E6%97%AD
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q210770

Tags

• From Fukuoka Prefecture
• Baseball Player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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