Ken Higuchi

Honestly, the first thing that got me about Ken Higuchi is where he's from — Takehara, Hiroshima, that quiet little town they call the "Kyoto of Aki" for its preserved merchant-era streetscapes and white-walled kura storehouses. There's something almost cinematic about a baseball player coming out of a place that looks like a period drama set. Born in December 1989, he's squarely in that post-bubble, pre-millennium Heisei generation of players who came up grinding without the spotlight anyone born a decade later would take for granted. At 180 cm he's got the frame for the sport, and I catch myself picturing him at the plate in that unhurried, composed way that fits a guy shaped by such a low-key hometown. The public record on his career is thin, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise — but sometimes the players who stay quietly off the radar are exactly the ones who were in it purely for the game, and that's its own kind of story worth respecting.

Ken Higuchi is a Japanese baseball player born on December 2, 1989, in Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture. He stands 180 cm tall. Further career details and personal information are not publicly available.

Name (English)

Ken Higuchi

Name (Japanese)

樋口賢

Reading

ひぐち けん

Born

December 2, 1989 (age 36)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Snake (巳)

Origin

Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Height

180cm

Occupation

Baseball Player

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A8%8B%E5%8F%A3%E8%B3%A2

Tags

• From Hiroshima Prefecture
• Baseball Player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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