Toshiya Nakashima (中島俊哉, born June 10, 1980 in

Chikugo, Fukuoka is a city located in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city was founded on April 1, 1954. As of May 31, 2011, the city had an estimated population of 48,808, with 17,322 households and a population density of 1,166.26 persons per km². The total a ...

) is a Japanese professional

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding ...

outfielder An outfielder is a person playing in one of the three defensive positions in baseball or softball, farthest from the batter. These defenders are the left fielder, the center fielder, and the right fielder. As an outfielder, their duty is to c ...

for the

Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles The , often shortened as the , are a baseball team based in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It has played in Nippon Professional Baseball's Pacific League since the team's formation in November 2004. The team is owned by the Internet shoppin ...

in Japan's

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1980 births Japanese baseball players Living people Nippon Professional Baseball outfielders Orix BlueWave players Baseball people from Fukuoka Prefecture People from Chikugo, Fukuoka Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles players {{Japan-baseball-outfielder-stub