Commissioner of Baseball (NPB)
Encyclopedia
The Commissioner of Baseball is the highest office in Japan
's Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). NPB's current Commissioner is former Japanese ambassador to the United States
, Ryozo Kato
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Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
's Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). NPB's current Commissioner is former Japanese ambassador to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, Ryozo Kato
Ryozo Kato
is a Japanese lawyer and career diplomat who served as the Japanese Ambassador to the United States from 2001 to 2008. He is now the Commissioner of Nippon Professional Baseball....
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Commissioners
- Morita Fukui (1951–1954)
- Nobori Inon (1956–1962)
- Yushi Uchimura (1962–1965)
- Toshiyoshi Miyazawa (1965–1971)
- Nobumoto Ohama (1971–1976)
- Toshi Kaneko (1976–1979)
- Takeso Shimoda (1979–1985)
- Juhei Takeuchi (1985–1988)
- Ichiro Yoshikuni (1989–1998)
- Hiromori Kawashima (1998–2004)
- Yasuchika Negoro (2004–2007)
- Ryozo KatoRyozo Katois a Japanese lawyer and career diplomat who served as the Japanese Ambassador to the United States from 2001 to 2008. He is now the Commissioner of Nippon Professional Baseball....
(2008–present)