ASAMURA Hideto

Premier 12

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Baseball	2019

Athlete

Wife Yuki Tannowa

Japanese

Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles [Sendai, JPN] since 2019

Kazuhisa Ishii [club], JPN; Atsunori Inaba [national], JPN

Infield (sanspo.com, 04 Oct 2018)

Bats right, throws right (premier12.wbsc.org, 17 Nov 2019)

His wife Yuki Tannowa is an actress and a sports reporter in Japan. (hochi.news, 18 Nov 2019; Yuki Tannowa Instagram profile, 23 Dec 2019)

NPB [JPN] (npb.jp, 25 May 2021)

He initially began playing softball in grade four of primary school before switching to baseball. He took up the sport seriously in grade six with the Osaka Miyakojima Boys team. (asahi.com, 10 Jul 2017; sportiva.shueisha.co.jp, 10 Aug 2020)

He was influenced by his two older brothers. His father was also a baseball player at high school, while his mother played softball. (sportiva.shueisha.co.jp, 10 Aug 2020)

His former high school coach Koichi Nishitani. (sportiva.shueisha.co.jp, 10 Aug 2020)

He received the Most Home Runs Award in the NPB in 2020. (sp.rakuteneagles.jp, 10 Nov 2020)

He received an NPB Best Nine Award as second baseman four years in a row from 2016 until 2019. He also received a Best Nine Award for first baseman in 2013. (rakuteneagles.jp, 22 Jan 2020; nikkansports.com, 25 Nov 2019)

In 2019 he was awarded a Golden Glove Award for second base. He had previously won the award as a first baseman in 2013. (japantimes.co.jp, 31 Oct 2019; rakuteneagles.jp, 22 Jan 2020)

He received the Most Runs Batted In [RBI] Award by NPB in 2013 and 2018. (rakuteneagles.jp, 22 Jan 2020)