is a professional Japanese

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player and a

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. He plays

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for the

Saitama Seibu Lions The are a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League based north of Tokyo in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture. Before 1979, they were based in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, in Kyushu. The team is owned by a subsidiary of Seibu Railway ...

. He took up

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with the

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after going unsigned following his release by the Seibu Lions. In September 2022, he was named in Japan's T20I squad for the

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. Kimura was part of Japan's squad against the Indonesia cricket team that toured Japan in October 2022 to play a three-match

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series. He made his T20I debut on 10 October 2022, against

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References

External links

NPB.com
* 1980 births Living people Baseball people from Osaka Japanese baseball players Japanese cricketers Japan Twenty20 International cricketers Nippon Professional Baseball infielders People from Jōtō, Osaka Yokohama BayStars players Hiroshima Toyo Carp players Saitama Seibu Lions players Cricketers at the 2022 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Japan {{Japan-baseball-infielder-stub