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My Take
I should be straight about this one: there is not much to work with yet, and pretending otherwise would be doing the reader a disservice. Natsuo Takizawa was born in August 2003 in Joetsu, a snow-country city on the Sea of Japan side of Niigata Prefecture. He played at Sekine Gakuen High School and is now an infielder with the Saitama Seibu Lions in Nippon Professional Baseball. No awards, no signature season, no story that has hardened into legend. That blankness is worth explaining rather than padding. Japanese professional baseball runs deep farm systems, and the middle infield is the least forgiving address in the sport. Shortstops and second basemen are interchangeable in a way sluggers never are: there are always three other bodies who can stand in that spot, so a young infielder survives on defense while his bat is still catching up, and one bad month can send him back down without ceremony. Simply holding a roster place there, in your early twenties, is already a real accomplishment. What I like about writing him up this early is precisely that nothing is settled. The narrative has not been assigned to him yet. He is a kid from a regional high school in a prefecture better known for rice and snow, and the interesting part - the slow accumulation of a name - is happening right now rather than in retrospect. If this page reads as badly out of date in five years, that will be the best possible outcome for it.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Takizawa, Natsuo
- Name (Japanese)
- 滝澤夏央
- Born
- August 13, 2003 (age 22)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Goat
- Origin
- Jōetsu-shi, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
- Occupation
- baseball player
2. Background
- High school
- Sekine Gakuen High School
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/natsuo_813/
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%BB%9D%E6%BE%A4%E5%A4%8F%E5%A4%AE
Frequently asked questions
When was Takizawa, Natsuo born?
Born August 13, 2003 (age 22).
Where is Takizawa, Natsuo from?
Takizawa, Natsuo is from Jōetsu-shi, Niigata Prefecture, Japan.
What does Takizawa, Natsuo do?
Takizawa, Natsuo works as baseball player.
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-07-26
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.