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Koji Akiyama is a retired Japanese

Japanese people

The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...

professional baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

player. He played for the Seibu Lions

Seibu Lions

The are a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League based west of Tokyo in Tokorozawa, Saitama. Before 1979, they were based in Fukuoka in Kyushu. The team is owned by a subsidiary of Prince Hotels, which in turn is owned by the Seibu Group...

and the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks (currently the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks

Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks

The are a Japanese baseball team based in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture. The team was bought on January 28, 2005 by the SoftBank Corporation.The team was formerly known as the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks. In 1988, Daiei bought the team from Osaka's Nankai Electric Railway Co., and its headquarters were...

) in Japan

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. He replaced Sadaharu Oh

Sadaharu Oh

Sadaharu Oh, or Wang Chenchih , is a retired Japanese-Taiwanese baseball player and manager. He batted and threw left-handed and primarily played first base. Oh, who was born in Sumida, Tokyo the son of a Taiwanese father and a Japanese mother, had originally signed with the powerhouse Yomiuri...

on October 8, 2008 as manager of the Hawks.

Career statistics

Year	Team	Squad number	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	TB	RBI	SB	BB+HBP	SO	BA
1981	Seibu Lions	71	3	5	1	1	0	1	0	3	0	0	1	2	.200
1982		24	Played at San Hose Bees San Jose Giants The San Jose Giants are a minor league baseball team in San Jose, California, USA. They are a Class A - Advanced team in the Northern Division of the California League, and have been a farm team of the San Francisco Giants since 1988. Home games are played at San Jose Municipal Stadium... to train
1983			Played at San Hose Bees San Jose Giants The San Jose Giants are a minor league baseball team in San Jose, California, USA. They are a Class A - Advanced team in the Northern Division of the California League, and have been a farm team of the San Francisco Giants since 1988. Home games are played at San Jose Municipal Stadium... to train
1984			54	140	16	33	5	2	4	54	14	6	13	32	.236
1985			130	468	93	118	16	0	40	254	93	17	70	115	.252
1986			130	492	88	132	19	3	41	280	115	21	63	94	.268
1987		1	130	496	82	130	13	2	43	276	94	38	51	102	.262
1988			130	517	93	151	23	2	38	292	103	20	58	132	.292
1989			130	478	92	144	24	4	31	269	99	31	73	93	.301
1990			130	476	84	122	16	0	35	243	91	51	73	120	.256
1991			116	455	97	135	23	3	35	269	88	21	55	96	.297
1992			130	480	92	142	26	2	31	265	89	13	83	114	.296
1993			127	470	67	116	23	4	30	237	72	9	65	136	.247
1994	Daiei Hawks		129	473	93	120	26	5	24	228	73	26	90	125	.254
1995			122	476	61	127	25	1	21	217	66	13	48	101	.264
1996			121	466	53	140	27	0	9	194	66	13	41	78	.300
1997			97	371	46	91	20	2	12	151	52	11	47	62	.245
1998			115	423	43	110	32	4	10	180	49	7	46	76	.260
1999			113	386	41	99	16	2	12	155	44	3	30	83	.256
2000			124	427	44	112	23	1	5	152	48	2	51	63	.262
2001			82	269	31	77	13	3	11	129	32	1	18	43	.286
2002			76	229	14	57	7	0	5	79	25	0	9	45	.249
Career Total			2189	7997	1231	2157	377	41	437	3927	1312	303	985	1712	.270

※Bolded figures are league leading

Titles and Accomplishments

Home Run Champion : once (1987)
Stolen Bases Champion : once (1990)
Decisive RBIs Champion : 4 times (1985,1987)
Best Nine : 8 times (1986–1993)
Golden Glove : 11 times (1987–1996,1999)
Matsutaro Shoriki Award : once (1991)
Japan Series
Japan Series
, or is the annual championship series in Nippon Professional Baseball, the top baseball league in Japan. It is a seven-game series between the winning clubs of the league's two circuits, the Central League and the Pacific League....

MVP : Twice (1991, 1999)
Hitting for the cycle
Hitting for the cycle
In baseball, hitting for the cycle is the accomplishment of one batter hitting a single, a double, a triple, and a home run in the same game. Collecting the hits in that order is known as a "natural cycle". Cycles are uncommon in Major League Baseball , occurring 293 times since the first by Curry...

: once (Jul 13, 1989)

400 HR and 300 SB (Only one other player in history)
30 HR and 50 SB in single season (only he achieved)
18 consecutive year's appearance at All-Star Game (1985–2002) (The longest for consecutive record)

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