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. Born in London, raised in Takehara, drafted by Chunichi and released after two seasons without a top-team appearance, he went back to coaching kids in Hiroshima — 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.

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Ken Higuchi (born December 2, 1989) is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher from Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture. Born in London to a British father and a Japanese mother, he moved to Takehara at age three. Standing 180 cm tall, he was the ace of Onomichi Commercial High School, joined the Chunichi Dragons in the 2007 draft, and retired in 2009 without pitching for the top team. He later became a coach for a youth baseball club in Hiroshima.

Name (English)

Ken Higuchi

Name (Japanese)

樋口賢

Reading

ひぐち けん

Born

December 2, 1989 (age 36)

Origin

Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Height

180cm

Occupation

Baseball Player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Snake

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A8%8B%E5%8F%A3%E8%B3%A2
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11542152

Tags

• From Hiroshima Prefecture
• Baseball Player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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