Nozomu Takatera

I'll be honest, Nozomu Takatera isn't a name I can spin box-score stories about yet, and that's kind of the point. He's a Hanshin Tigers outfielder and infielder from Ueda, Nagano, born in 2002, still in that wide-open early-twenties stretch where the whole thing is potential and grind. I clocked his uniform number, 67, tucked into his Instagram handle and grinned, because carrying your number into your name feels like someone who actually owns it. Baseball looks glamorous, but it's really endless swings and sprints before sunup. So no big verdict from me, just a soft spot for the straight-ahead young guys you root for before you have a reason to. I'm watching.

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Nozomu Takatera is a Japanese baseball player born on October 17, 2002. He is a Libra by zodiac sign and belongs to the Year of the Horse in the Chinese zodiac. From Ueda, Nagano, he was the Hanshin Tigers' seventh-round pick in the 2020 draft and plays outfield and infield wearing number 67, which also appears in his Instagram handle, n.takatera_67.

Name (English)

Nozomu Takatera

Name (Japanese)

髙寺望夢

Reading

たかてら のぞむ

Born

October 17, 2002 (age 24)

Origin

Japan

Occupation

Baseball Player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Horse

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/n.takatera_67/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AB%99%E5%AF%BA%E6%9C%9B%E5%A4%A2
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102246739

Tags

• Baseball Player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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