Miki Nakamura

Miki Nakamura was born on 31 July 1996 in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, and is a female softball pitcher. The Japanese Wikipedia article says she began playing softball at the age of six under her father's influence, was selected for the Japan junior national team while in high school and took part in the 2018 East Asia Cup as a member of the Japan national team. It describes her as a pitcher with an unusual delivery who throws a fastball above 100 kilometres an hour and varies her speed with a range of breaking balls, and says she is the youngest of three softball-playing sisters, the other two having played for Toyota. Her jersey numbers were 20 from 2015 to 2020, 16 in 2021 and 20 from 2022 to 2024. This entry is written from the Japanese Wikipedia article on Miki Nakamura, because the subject has no English Wikipedia article.