Kotaro Kiyomiya

Most athletes begin their professional life at zero. Kotaro Kiyomiya began his somewhere below it, in debt. He was already a household name at Waseda Jitsugyo high school, and the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters spent their first pick of the 2017 draft on him. Add a famous father — the rugby coach Katsuyuki Kiyomiya — and every plate appearance arrived pre-loaded with a story other people had written for him. Born 25 May 1999 in Tokyo, a 184 cm left-handed hitter who plays first base, he has spent his entire adult career inside that noise, including the long stretches when the commentary turned genuinely cruel. What I respect is unglamorous: he kept stepping back into the box. Hype is a debt you never agreed to take on, and paying it down slowly, in public, season after season, is far harder than it looks from the stands.

Name (English)

Kotaro Kiyomiya

Name (Japanese)

清宮幸太郎

Reading

きよみや こうたろう

Born

May 25, 1999 (age 27)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rabbit

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Height

184 cm

Occupation

baseball player

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dtar%C5%8D%20Kiyomiya
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B8%85%E5%AE%AE%E5%B9%B8%E5%A4%AA%E9%83%8E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44521894

Tags

• Tokyo
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-07-26

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