Takumi Akiyama

Takumi Akiyama is a former professional pitcher from Marugame, Kagawa, who spent his Nippon Professional Baseball career with the Hanshin Tigers. He stands 188 cm, and in a country where that is unusual on the mound, the physical gift was obvious from the start. Steep downhill angle, long levers, the kind of frame scouts fall in love with immediately. That early promise is also the part of his story I find most human. Being marked as a future ace young is not purely a blessing. It sets a clock running, and when the results do not arrive on schedule, the gap between expectation and reality becomes the whole narrative around you. Akiyama lived through years like that and kept pitching, eventually putting together seasons that justified the faith. He has since retired. I think careers like his deserve more attention than the smooth ones. Persisting through the quiet years is a skill nobody puts in a box score.

Name (English)

Takumi Akiyama

Name (Japanese)

秋山拓巳

Reading

あきやま たくみ

Born

April 26, 1991 (age 35)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Goat

Origin

Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan

Height

188 cm

Occupation

baseball player

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takumi%20Akiyama
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A7%8B%E5%B1%B1%E6%8B%93%E5%B7%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7678574

Tags

• Kagawa Prefecture
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-08-07

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