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	Olympic Games 2000

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Japan Roster - Olympic Games 2000 - Sydney, Australia

Japanese Olympic Roster announced
TOKYO (Japan) - The roster of the national team of Japan will include eight players of the professional Japanese Baseball League. One of the players is Norihiro Nakamura of the b>Kintetsu Buffaloes, who leads the Pacific League with 25 homeruns ans also has 73 RBI's. Another member is 19-year old pitching sensation Daisuke Matsuzake of the Seibu Lions. The Pacific League allowed its six teams to let one player participate. The owners of the six Central League-teams refused as they will be in the final phase of the regular season during the Olympics.
(August 24)
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Japan Olympic Roster

Pitchers	Team or Professional Organization (*)
Yoshikazu Doi	Nippon Life Insurance
Masanori Ishikawa	Aoyama Gakuin University
Masato Kawano	Hiroshima Carp (*)
Tomohiro Kuroki	Lotte Marines (*)
Daisuke Matsuzaka	Seibu Lions (*)
Toshiya Sugiuchi	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagasaki
Masanori Sugiura	Nippon Life Insurance
Shunsuke Watanabe	Nippon Steel Kimitsu
Akichika Yanada	Ritsumeikan University
Yuji Yoshini	Tohoku Fukushi University
Catchers	Professional Organization
Shinnosuke Abe	Chuo University
Kosuke Noda	Nippon Steel Kimitsu
Fumihiro Suzuki	Chunichi Dragons (*)
Infielders	Professional Organization
Jun Heima	Toshiba
Nobuhiko Matsunaka	Daiei Hawks (*)
Norihiro Nakamura	Kintetsu Buffaloes (*)
Osamu Nogami	Nippon Life Insurance
Yoshinori Okihara	NTT East
Yukio Tanaka	Nippon Ham Fighters (*)
Outfielders	Professional Organization
Norihiro Akahosei	JR East
Jun Hirose	Hosei University
Tomohiro Iizuka	NTT East
Yoshihiko Kajiyama	Mitsubishi Motors Kawasaki
So Taguchi	Onix BlueWave (*)
Coaching Staff	Function
Kozo Otagaki	Manager
Hiroyuki Hayashi	Coach
Osamu Nomura	Coach
Keiichi Nagasaki	Coach

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	Australia		Cuba
	Italy		The Netherlands
	South Africa		South Korea
	USA		Main Olympic Index

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