Kōhei Azuma

Born in the tail end of 1999 in Ono City, Hyogo, Kohei Azuma is the kind of player whose story is still being written, and honestly that's the part I find most interesting. He came up quietly, no flashy backstory on record, just a kid from a small Hyogo city who made it onto a professional roster — and in Japanese baseball, that alone is a serious filter. The "Bs" in his handle points straight to the Orix Buffaloes, a team that has had a genuine resurgence, so he's playing in good company and with real pressure to earn his stripes. He's mid-twenties now, which means the next few years are exactly when guys like him either break out or fade into roster footnotes. I'm not going to pretend I know his numbers cold, but the fact that he's out there competing tells me something. Quiet upbringing, professional grind, still figuring out his ceiling — that's a career worth watching.

Kōhei Azuma is a Japanese professional baseball player born on December 14, 1999, in Ono, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. He stands 178 cm tall. His current agency affiliation is private.

Name (English)

Kōhei Azuma

Name (Japanese)

東晃平

Reading

あずま こうへい

Born

December 14, 1999 (age 26)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Rabbit (卯)

Origin

Ono, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Height

178cm

Occupation

Baseball player

Motto

Private

• Xhttps://x.com/Bs_azumak
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%B1%E6%99%83%E5%B9%B3

Tags

• From Hyogo Prefecture
• Baseball 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.