Kosuke Ukai

I'll be honest, I've got a soft spot for guys like Kōsuke Ukai, and not because of a highlight reel I can quote at you. Born in 1999 and coming out of Chukyo Daichu, one of those legendary Japanese baseball high schools, he's the kind of player who clearly spent his teens buried in early-morning practice and endless swings. I don't have a stat line to wave around, and I'm not going to invent one, but that's almost the appeal here, this is the grind-it-out, build-the-body, win-the-at-bat type rather than the manufactured star. Peek at his Instagram and there's that easy young-guy brightness that flips into something dead serious the moment he's on the dirt. I'm a sucker for the quiet climbers, so yeah, I'm rooting for the day he breaks out.

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Kosuke Ukai is a Japanese professional baseball player born on May 30, 1999. He attended Chukyo University Attached Chukyo High School, a school well known for producing elite baseball talent. An outfielder and first baseman for the Chunichi Dragons, he was the club's second-round pick in the 2021 draft and debuted in March 2022.

Name (English)

Kosuke Ukai

Name (Japanese)

鵜飼航丞

Reading

うかい こうすけ

Born

May 30, 1999 (age 27)

Origin

Japan

Occupation

Baseball player / Professional baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rabbit

High school

Chukyo University Attached Chukyo High School

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kosuke.ukai.4/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%B5%9C%E9%A3%BC%E8%88%AA%E4%B8%9E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109288383

Tags

• baseball player
• professional baseball player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.