Nobuyuki Okumura

Nobuyuki Okumura's story is one of those baseball lives that quietly earns your respect the more you learn about it. A kid from Konan City on Lake Biwa's doorstep, he made it to Koshien with Nihon Daigaku Yamagata and helped pull off the kind of semifinal run that a whole prefecture still talks about. Then he got drafted by the Giants in 2013, and barely had his NPB rookie card warm before he became the youngest free-agent compensation player in league history at just 19 — shipped off to Yakult before he'd really gotten started. A rougher start is hard to imagine, and yet he carved out a decade with the Swallows as exactly the kind of guy a clubhouse runs on: versatile infielder, energy guy, someone who makes the roster tighter just by being in it. Not a name you see on highlight reels, but take him out and you feel it. That's a career worth something.

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Nobuyuki Okumura is a Japanese professional baseball player born on May 26, 1995, in Konan City, Shiga Prefecture. Standing 178 cm tall, he is a Gemini born in the Year of the Boar. Further details about his career, agency, and personal life are not publicly available.

Name (English)

Nobuyuki Okumura

Name (Japanese)

奥村展征

Reading

おくむら のぶゆき

Born

May 26, 1995 (age 31)

Origin

Konan City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan

Height

178cm

Occupation

Baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Boar

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A5%A5%E6%9D%91%E5%B1%95%E5%BE%81
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16264979

Tags

• From Shiga Prefecture
• Baseball player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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