Kazuhiro Kuroda

Kazuhiro Kuroda is the kind of figure history tends to swallow whole — born in Nagasaki in 1924, a baseball player coming of age in a Japan that was hurtling toward catastrophe and then clawing its way back out. I find myself genuinely moved just thinking about what it meant to step onto a baseball diamond in that era: the war, the rebuilding, the sheer stubbornness it took to keep playing. He passed in 2007 at 83, which means he lived long enough to see Japanese baseball become a global export — that alone strikes me as a neat full circle for a man who played when it was just grit and a packed dirt infield.

Kazuhiro Kuroda (September 13, 1924 – August 17, 2007) was a Japanese baseball player born in Nagasaki Prefecture. Standing 176 cm tall, he was active during an era spanning the wartime and postwar periods in Japan. He passed away in 2007 at the age of 82.

Name (English)

Kazuhiro Kuroda

Name (Japanese)

黒田一博

Reading

くろだ かずひろ

Born

September 13, 1924 – August 17, 2007

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rat

Origin

Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan

Height

176 cm

Occupation

Baseball player

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BB%92%E7%94%B0%E4%B8%80%E5%8D%9A
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11678558

Tags

• Nagasaki Prefecture
• Baseball player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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