The Baseball Guru - MANAGERS BY TEAM

Jim Albright / the japanese insider

Japanese Baseball Data Archive

Japanese Managers

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BAY STARS ORIX BUFFALOES KINTETSU BUFFALOES CARP DRAGONS

EAGLES RAKUTEN EAGLES FIGHTERS GIANTS GOLDEN DOLPHINS

HAWKS LIONS MARINES PIRATES SENATORS

STARS SWALLOWS TIGERS UNIONS

NOTES: The nicknames used are those currently used by the franchise, or the last one it ever used. The 2004 merger of the Orix Blue Wave and the Kintetsu Buffaloes resulted in the Orix Buffaloes, run by the people previously operating under the Blue Wave banner. To keep the two Buffaloes teams apart, their owners are referred to. A new team was added, the Rakuten Eagles. Since there was a pre 1945 team that also used that name, I called the new entity the Rakuten Eagles to distinguish them. An asterisk (*) means the manager managed only a part of the starred year.

Bay Stars	Return to top
Start-End Years	Name
1950	Tairiku Watanabe
1951*	Haruyasu Nakajima
1951*	Giichi Arima
1952-1953	Tokuro Konishi
1954	Takeo Nagasawa
1955	Isamu Fujii
1956-1958	Masami Sakohata
1959	Shigeo Mori
1960-1967	Osamu Mihara
1968-1972	Kaoru Betto
1973	Noburu Aota
1974	Tsuyoshi Miyazaki
1975-1976	Noburu Akiyama
1977-1979	Kaoru Betto
1980-1981	Kiyoshi Doi
1982-1984	Junzo Sekine
1985-1986	Sadao Kondo
1987-1989	Takeshi Koba
1990-1992*	Yutaka Sudo
1992*	Akira Ejiri
1993-1995	Akihito Kondo
1996-1997	Akihiko Oya
1998-2000	Hiroshi Gondo
2001-2002	Masaaki Mori
2003-2004	Daisuke Yamashita
2005	Kazuhiko Ushijima
Orix Buffaloes	Return to top
Start-End Years	Name
1936-1937*	Daisuke Miyake
1937-1939	Minoru Yamashita
1939*	Minoru Murakami
1940-1942	Toshiharu Inokawa
1943-1947	Masao Nishimura
1948-1953	Shinji Hamazaki
1954-1956	Masao Nishimura
1957-1959*	Sadayoshi Fujimoto
1959*-1962	Katsuhiro Tokura
1963-1973	Yukio Nishimoto
1974-1978	Toshiharu Ueda
1979-1980	Takao Kajimoto
1981-1990	Toshiharu Ueda
1991-1993	Shozo Doi
1994-2001	Akira Ogi
2002-2003	Hiromichi Ishige
2004	Haruki Ihara
2005	Akira Ogi
Kintetsu Buffaloes	Return to top
Start-End Years	Name
1950-1952*	Shozo Fujita
1952*-1957	Takeo Akuta
1958	Hisayuki Kato
1959-1961	Shigeru Chiba
1962-1964	Kaoru Betto
1965-1966	Yoshiyuki Iwamoto
1967	Akitoshi Kodama
1968*1970	Osamu Mihara
1971-1973	Yoshiyuki Iwamoto
1974-1981	Yukio Nishimoto
1982-1983	Seiji Sekiguchi
1984-1987	Isami Okamoto
1988-1992	Akira Ogi
1993-1995	Keishi Suzuki
1996-1998	Kyosuke Sasaki
1999-2004	Masataka Nashida
Carp	Return to top
Start-End Years	Name
1950-1953*	Shuichi Ishimoto
1953*-1960	Katsumi Shiraishi
1961-1962	Masato Monzen
1963-1965*	Katsumi Shiraishi
1965*-1967	Ryohei Hasegawa
1968-1972	Rikuo Nemoto
1973	Kaoru Betto
1974	Katsuya Morinaga
1975*	Joe Lutz
1975*-1985	Takeshi Koba
1986-1988	Junro Anan
1989-1993	Koji Yamamoto (dob 10-25-46)
1994-1998	Toshiyuki Mimura
1999-2000	Mitsuo Tatsukawa
2001-date	Koji Yamamoto (dob 10-25-46)
Dragons	Return to top
Start-End Years	Name
1936	Yutaka Ikeda
1937	Keichi Masu
1938-1939*	Yukisato Nemoto
1939-1941	Tokuro Konishi
1941*-1942	Chikayoshi Honda
1943	Keichi Masu
1944	Daisuke Miyake
1946*	Aiichi Takeuchi
1946*-1948	Kiyoshi Sugiura
1949-1951	Shunichi Amachi
1952-1953	Michinori Tsubouchi
1954	Shunichi Amachi
1955-1956	Akira Noguchi
1957-1958	Shunichi Amachi
1959-1960	Shigeru Sugishita
1961-1962	Wataru Nounin
1963-1964*	Kiyoshi Sugiura
1964*-1967	Michio Nishizawa
1968	Shigeru Sugishita
1969-1971	Shigeru Mizuhara
1972-1977	Wally Yonamine
1978-1980	Toshio Naka
1981-1983	Sadao Kondo
1984-1986	Kazuhiro Yamauchi
1987-1991	Senichi Hoshino
1992-1995*	Morimichi Takagi
1995*	Sadayuki Tokutake
1995*	Ikuo Shimano
1996-2001	Senichi Hoshino
2002-2003	Hisashi Yamada
2004	Hiromitsu Ochiai
Eagles	Return to top
Start-End Years	Name
1937-1939	Shigeo Mori
1940	Toyo Sawa
1941	Mamoru Sugitaya
1942*	Kazutaka Teruachi
1942-1943	Hisanori Karita
1943*	Toshio Kojima
Rakuten Eagles	Return to top
Start-End Years	Name
2005	Yasushi Tao
Fighters	Return to top
Start-End Years	Name
1946	Yokozawa Saburo
1947-1948	Hisanori Karita
1949	Toshiharu Inokawa
1950-1951	Shinobu Ando
1952-1954	Toshiharu Inokawa
1955	Koichi Yasui
1956-1960	Yoshiyuki Iwamoto
1961-1967	Shigeru Mizuhara
1968	Hiroshi Oshita
1969-1970*	Kenjiro Matsuki
1970-1973	Kenjiro Tamiya
1973*	Masayuki Dobashi
1974-1975	Futoshi Nakanishi
1976-1983	Keiji Osawa
1984*	Yoshinobu Uemura
1984*	Keiji Osawa
1985-1988	Shigeru Takada
1989-1991	Sadao Kondo
1992	Masayuki Dobashi
1993-1994	Keiji Osawa
1995-1999	Toshiharu Ueda
2000-2002	Yasunori Oshima
2003-date	Trey Hillman
Giants	Return to top
Start-End Years	Name
1936-1942	Sadayoshi Fujimoto
1943	Haruyasu Nakajima
1944-1946*	Hideo Fujimoto
1946-1947	Haruyasu Nakajima
1947*-1949	Osamu Mihara
1950-1960	Shigeru Mizuhara
1961-1974	Tetsuharu Kawakami
1975-1980	Shigeo Nagashima
1981-1983	Motoshi Fujita
1984-1988	Sadaharu Oh
1989-1992	Motoshi Fujita
1993-2001	Shigeo Nagashima
2002-2003	Tatsunori Hara
2004-date	Tsuneo Horiuchi
Golden Dolphins	Return to top
Start-End Years	Name
1936-1940	Genzabaro Okada
Hawks	Return to top
Start-End Years	Name
1938-1940	Kazuo Takasu
1941-1942*	Hachiro Mitani
1943*	Katsuo Takada
1943*-1944	Kisaki Kato
1946-1968	Kazuto Tsuruoka
1969	Tokuji Iida
1970-1977	Katsuya Nomura
1978-1980	Yoshinori Hirose
1981-1982	Don Blasingame
1983-1985	Yoshio Anabuki
1986-1989	Tadashi Sugiura
1990-1992	Koichi Tabuchi
1993-1994	Rikuo Nemoto
1995-date	Sadaharu Oh
Lions	Return to top
Start-End Years	Name
1950	Kaname Yamazaki
1951-1959	Osamu Mihara
1960-1961	Tokuji Kawasaki
1962-1969	Futoshi Nakanishi
1970-1974	Kazuhisa Inao
1975	Shenichi Eto
1976-1977	Masakazu Kito
1978-1981	Rikuo Nemoto
1982-1985	Tatsuro Hirooka
1986-1994	Masaaki Mori
1995-2001	Osamu Higashio
2002-2003	Haruki Ihara
2004-date	Tsutomu Ito
Marines	Return to top
Start-End Years	Name
1950-1952*	Sadao Yuasa
1952*	Kaoru Betto
1953	Tadashi Wakabayashi
1954-1959	Kaoru Betto
1960	Yukio Nishimoto
1961-1962	Mitsuo Uno
1963-1965	Yasuji Hondo
1966	Hitoshi Tamaru
1967*	Katsuhiro Tokura
1967-1971	Wataru Nounin
1971*-1972	Keiji Osawa
1973-1978	Masaichi Kaneda
1979-1981	Kazuhiro Yamauchi
1982-1983	Kazuyoshi Yamamoto
1984-1986	Kazuhisa Inao
1987-1989	Michiyo Arito
1990-1991	Masaichi Kaneda
1992-1994*	Soroku Yagisawa
1994*	Futoshi Nakanishi
1995	Bobby Valentine
1996	Akira Ejiri
1997-1998	Akihito Kondo
1999-2003	Koji Yamamoto (dob 12-25-51)
2004-date	Bobby Valentine
Pirates	Return to top
Start-End Years	Name
1950	Toshi Kojima
Senators	Return to top
Start-End Years	Name
1936-1937	Saburo Yokozawa
1938-1941	Hisanori Karita
1942-1943	Shuichi Ishimoto
Stars	Return to top
Start-End Years	Name
1946-1947	Michinori Tsubouchi
1948-1956*	Sadayoshi Fujimoto
1956*	Kenjiro Matsuki
Swallows	Return to top
Start-End Years	Name
1950-1953	Norio Nishigaki
1954-1955	Shoichi Fujita
1956-1960	Mitsuo Uno
1961-1962	Kuninobu Sunaoshi
1963	Shinji Haamzaki
1964-1965*	Giichi Hayashi
1965*	Kuninobu Sunaoshi
1966-1967	Tokuji Iida
1968-1970*	Takehiko Bessho
1970*	Yoshiharu Ogawa
1971-1973	Osamu Mihara
1974-1976*	Hiroshi Arakawa
1976*-1979	Tatsuro Hirooka
1980-1984*	Shiro Takegami
1984*-1986	Masayuki Dobashi
1987-1989	Junzo Sekine
1990-1998	Katsuya Nomura
1999-date	Tsutomu Wakamatsu
Tigers	Return to top
Start-End Years	Name
1936*	Shigeo Mori
1936*-1939	Shuichi Ishimoto
1940-1941	Kenjiro Matsuki
1942-1944	Tadashi Wakabayashi
1946	Fumio Fujimura
1947-1949	Tadashi Wakabayashi
1950-1954	Kenjiro Matsuki
1955*	Ichiro Kishi
1955*-1957	Fumio Fujimura
1958-1959	Yoshio Tanaka
1960-1961*	Masayasu Kaneda
1961*-1968	Sadayoshi Fujimoto
1969	Tsugio Goto
1970-1972	Minoru Murayama
1973-1974	Masayasu Kaneda
1975-1977	Yoshio Yoshida
1978	Tsugio Goto
1979-1980*	Don Blasingame
1980*-1981	Futoshi Nakanishi
1982-1984	Motoo Ando
1985-1987	Yoshio Yoshida
1988-1989	Minoru Murayama
1990-1995*	Katsuhiro Nakamura
1995-1996	Taira Fujita
1996*	Takeshi Shibata
1997-1998	Yoshio Yoshida
1999-2001	Katsuya Nomura
2002-2003	Senichi Hoshino
2004	Akinobu Okada
Unions	Return to top
Start-End Years	Name
1954-1955	Shinji Hamazaki
1956	Kazuo Kasahara
1957	Kenjiro Matsuki