Ryūnosuke Yokoyama

Ryūnosuke Yokoyama — honestly, when I first clocked that name I thought it belonged to a samurai in some period drama, not a guy playing baseball. He was Nihon Bunri's ace at both 2006 Koshien tournaments, then spent six years with the Hanshin Tigers. Baseball in Japan has its flashy stars and its headline moments, but the sport only functions because of guys like this — the ones grinding through seasons, doing their jobs quietly, letting the game speak. Going home to Niigata afterward and becoming the ace of the Tainai city office team feels like a story worth telling.

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Ryūnosuke Yokoyama (born September 29, 1988) is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher from Niigata Prefecture. He stands 184 cm tall. After pitching Nihon Bunri High School to both Koshien tournaments in 2006, he played for the Hanshin Tigers from 2007 to 2012, and later worked for the Tainai city government while pitching in amateur rubber-ball baseball.

Name (English)

Ryūnosuke Yokoyama

Name (Japanese)

横山龍之介

Reading

よこやま りゅうのすけ

Born

September 29, 1988 (age 38)

Origin

Niigata, Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Height

184cm

Occupation

Baseball Player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Dragon

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A8%AA%E5%B1%B1%E9%BE%8D%E4%B9%8B%E4%BB%8B
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11542673

Tags

• Baseball Player

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.