Ginji Akaminai

Ginji is one of those players whose name tells you something about him before the stats do. Born in Fudai, a tiny village on the Iwate coast, he went through his entire Nippon Professional Baseball career with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles as an infielder, and he did it under a single name — Ginji — rather than his full name, Ginji Akaminai. There is a quiet confidence in that. He was not a slugger who bent games with one swing; he was a contact hitter, the sort who keeps an inning breathing while someone else gets the headline. Fans of that kind of player are usually the most loyal, because they are watching for craft rather than fireworks. And I think there is something else worth saying: a Tohoku club with a Tohoku-born regular at its center means more to that region than any box score can record. He has since retired, but for a long stretch he was simply part of what that team looked like.

Name (English)

Ginji Akaminai

Name (Japanese)

銀次

Reading

ぎんじ

Born

February 24, 1988 (age 38)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dragon

Origin

Fudai, Iwate Prefecture, Japan

Height

174 cm

Occupation

baseball player

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginji%20Akaminai
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%8A%80%E6%AC%A1
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11650032

Tags

• Iwate Prefecture
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-08-07

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.