Yoshito Okubo

The stat that stops me with Yoshito Okubo is this: J.League top scorer in 2013, 2014 and 2015, with a place in the Best XI each of those years. Leading a league in scoring once can be a hot season. Doing it three years running, in your thirties, is something else entirely. Born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1982 and listed at 170 cm, he was never going to win games in the air, which makes the sustained goalscoring more interesting rather than less. For the national team he made 60 appearances and scored 6 goals, a return that has been argued over endlessly by Japanese fans, though it never really dented what he did domestically. He has since retired from playing and works as a football commentator, and he brings the same bluntness to the microphone that he brought to the penalty area. I find that refreshing. When a former striker says a chance should have been buried, he has the receipts to say it.

Name (English)

Yoshito Okubo

Name (Japanese)

大久保嘉人

Reading

おおくぼ よしと

Born

June 9, 1982 (age 44)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Dog

Origin

Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Height

170 cm

Occupation

association football player / soccer commentator

• Official sitehttps://www.enjing.jp/yoshito_okubo/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/yoshito13/
• Xhttps://x.com/Okubonbon13
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshito%20%C5%8Ckubo
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E4%B9%85%E4%BF%9D%E5%98%89%E4%BA%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311209

Tags

• Fukuoka Prefecture
• association football player
• soccer commentator

Last updated

2026-08-07

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.