Nozomi Nagasaki

Nozomi Nagasaki was born on 19 June 1992 in Niihama, Ehime Prefecture, and is a female softball outfielder, formerly with the Toyota Red Terriers and the Japan national team. The Japanese Wikipedia article says she began softball in the third grade of elementary school and joined Toyota in 2011, winning the Japan League home run title, runs batted in title, Best Nine award and rookie award in her first year. She was in the Japan national team from 2014, a main player at the world championships of 2014, 2016 and 2018 and at the Asian Games of 2014 and 2018, contributing to medals, and she announced her retirement on 9 December 2020 and became an ambassador of the JD League in 2023. This entry is written from the Japanese Wikipedia article on Nozomi Nagasaki, because the subject has no English Wikipedia article.