Asahi Uenaka

There's something almost poetic about a soccer player named Asahi — it literally means "morning sun," and honestly, that name does a lot of heavy lifting when you don't yet know a guy's game. Born in Fukuoka in 2001, he's the kind of age where you think, wait, he was born the year I was doing what exactly? Twenty-two going on twenty-three, 179cm, a Scorpio — and if you know anything about Scorpios, they don't do things halfway. They grind, they fixate, they will run through a wall if the ball is on the other side of it. I haven't tracked every minute of his career, and the public record on him is still pretty thin, but that's almost the point — he's right at the edge of becoming someone people will argue about. A kid out of Fukuoka with a name like sunrise? I'm rooting for him to back it up.

Asahi Uenaka is a Japanese professional soccer player born on November 1, 2001, in Fukuoka Prefecture. Standing 179 cm tall, he plays under his real name with no known stage name. His social media presence includes accounts on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).

Name (English)

Asahi Uenaka

Name (Japanese)

植中朝日

Reading

うえなか あさひ

Born

November 1, 2001 (age 24)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Snake (巳)

Origin

Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Height

179cm

Occupation

Soccer player

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/asahi_uenaka1101/
• Xhttps://x.com/uenakaasahi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A4%8D%E4%B8%AD%E6%9C%9D%E6%97%A5

Tags

• From Fukuoka Prefecture
• Soccer 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.