Masato Kumashiro

There's something quietly compelling about Masato Kumashiro's story — a kid who grew up in Kumakogen, a small mountain town tucked deep in Ehime Prefecture, and turned his whole life into baseball. Imabari Nishi High School is no joke as a baseball program, so just making the cut there says something about his early commitment. What I find interesting is that after playing for Seibu through 2022 he moved to the coaching side, passing down whatever he figured out over the years on a diamond. That shift from player to teacher doesn't happen unless you genuinely love the game beyond your own career. Not a flashy name, not a household face, but the kind of baseball lifer who keeps the sport's foundation solid.

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Masato Kumashiro is a Japanese baseball player and coach born on April 18, 1989, in Kumakogen, Ehime Prefecture. He attended Imabari Nishi High School in Ehime, a school known for its baseball program. Standing 175 cm tall, he has pursued a career both as a player and, in a coaching capacity, working to pass on his knowledge of the game to the next generation.

Name (English)

Masato Kumashiro

Name (Japanese)

熊代聖人

Reading

くましろ まさと

Born

April 18, 1989 (age 37)

Origin

Kumakogen, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Height

175cm

Occupation

Baseball player / Baseball coach

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Snake

High school

Ehime Prefectural Imabari Nishi High School

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kumashiro58/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%86%8A%E4%BB%A3%E8%81%96%E4%BA%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11567827

Tags

• From Ehime Prefecture
• Baseball player
• Baseball coach

Last updated

October 18, 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.