Yukinaga Maeda

Yukinaga Maeda, born in 1970 in Nakagawa, Fukuoka, came up through Fukuoka Daiichi High School and went on to play professional baseball in Japan. What strikes me about his entry is how little of it survives in structured form: no award list, no timeline, just a birth date, a hometown, and a height of 179 cm. That gap says more about how Japanese baseball records get archived than about the man himself. For most players, the real substance is not a trophy but a decade of showing up, and that kind of career resists being reduced to bullet points. He keeps social accounts today, which gives a small window into life after the uniform. I would rather admit the thinness of the record than invent color to fill it, so I will leave this as an honest sketch and build it out as verifiable details come in.

Name (English)

Yukinaga Maeda

Name (Japanese)

前田幸長

Reading

まえだ ゆきなが

Born

August 26, 1970 (age 55)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Dog

Origin

Nakagawa, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Height

179 cm

Occupation

baseball player

High school

Fukuoka Daiichi High School

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/chocosan29/
• Xhttps://x.com/myprochocochan
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukinaga%20Maeda
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%89%8D%E7%94%B0%E5%B9%B8%E9%95%B7
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11397549

Tags

• Fukuoka Prefecture
• baseball player

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.