Norifumi Nishimura

Norifumi Nishimura is one of those baseball guys who quietly put in years of solid work as a player for the Lotte Marines before showing the world his real gift was reading a game from the dugout. As manager he took Chiba Lotte all the way to the 2010 Pacific League pennant and then through the Japan Series, and watching that scrappy club play with such relentless speed and aggression — that had his fingerprints all over it. He picked up the Shoriki Matsutaro Award, which is basically the industry tipping its hat to the person who did the most for baseball that year, and honestly it felt earned. Born in the small coastal city of Kushima in Miyazaki, he's the kind of figure who doesn't chase the spotlight but ends up defining an era for his team's fans anyway.

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Norifumi Nishimura is a Japanese baseball figure born on January 9, 1960, in Kushima, Miyazaki Prefecture. He is a recipient of the Shoriki Matsutaro Award, one of Japanese baseball's most prestigious honors for contributions to the sport. Standing 177 cm tall, he is from Miyazaki Prefecture in Kyushu, Japan.

Name (English)

Norifumi Nishimura

Name (Japanese)

西村徳文

Reading

にしむら のりふみ

Born

January 9, 1960 (age 66)

Origin

Kushima, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan

Height

177cm

Occupation

Baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rat

Awards & achievements

• Shoriki Matsutaro Award (year unknown)

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E6%9D%91%E5%BE%B3%E6%96%87
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q485719

Tags

• From Miyazaki Prefecture
• Baseball player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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