Makoto Kadowaki

Makoto Kadowaki, born in Nara in 2001, is still early in his story, and yet he already owns one of those moments a career gets built around. Playing infield for the Yomiuri Giants after coming up through Sōka University, he represented Samurai Japan at the 2024 Asia Professional Baseball Championship — and in the final against South Korea he hit the walk-off single, then took the tournament MVP award. What strikes me about that is the position he plays. Infielders of his type are usually praised for glove work, for the quiet reliability that never makes the news. To be the one who ends the final with the bat is a different kind of nerve entirely. He is barely into his twenties, so most of the record is unwritten, and I'd rather not pretend to know how it ends. But a young player from Nara who delivered under exactly that much pressure has earned the right to be watched closely.

Name (English)

Makoto Kadowaki

Name (Japanese)

門脇誠

Born

January 24, 2001 (age 25)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Snake

Origin

Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

professional baseball player

University

Sōka University

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto%20Kadowaki
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%96%80%E8%84%87%E8%AA%A0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116937243

Tags

• Nara Prefecture
• professional baseball player

Last updated

2026-08-07

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.