Manaya Nishikawa

Manaya Nishikawa was born in Kita-ku, Osaka, went east to Hanasaki Tokuharu High School in Saitama, and never really came back: the Saitama Seibu Lions drafted him and he has built his career in the same prefecture. An outfielder at 180 cm, he was not one of those high school picks who walks straight into a lineup. It took years of moving between the farm club and the top team before he had ground of his own. I have a soft spot for careers shaped that way. Players who arrive late and then stay tend to be more interesting than the ones who flash early and vanish.

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Name (English)

Manaya Nishikawa

Name (Japanese)

西川愛也

Reading

にしかわ まなや

Born

June 10, 1999 (age 27)

Origin

Kita-ku, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Height

180 cm

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rabbit

High school

Hanasaki Tokuharu High School

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/manaya.51/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manaya%20Nishikawa
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E5%B7%9D%E6%84%9B%E4%B9%9F
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47470280

Tags

• Osaka Prefecture
• baseball player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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