The Hankyu Braves ( named in 1947 ) played until the 1988 season and became the predecessors of the present-day Orix Buffaloes.

* Hankyu Baseball Club ( 1936 – 1944 ; 1946 ) → Hankyu Bears ( January, 1947 – April, 1947 ) → Hankyu Braves ( April, 1947 – 1949 ) → To the Pacific League ( Present: Orix Buffaloes )

* Orix BlueWave, formerly the Hankyu Braves and Orix Braves, a defunct Japanese professional baseball team

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Later nicknamed Hankyu Braves, it was one of the first Japanese professional baseball teams.

The Hankyu Braves were one of the strongest teams not only in the Pacific League but in all of Japan.

Between 1967 and 1972, the Hankyu Braves won the Pacific League pennant five times, but lost the Japan Series each time against the Tokyo Giants.

At that time many good players in Japanese Baseball history played for the Hankyu Braves.

Elected mainly for Hankyu Braves service

as Hankyu ( and Orix ) Braves

In, Marcano went to Japan where he joined the Hankyu Braves as a second baseman ( the team has since become the Orix Blue Wave, and then the Orix Buffaloes ).

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After a brief career at the company team of Matsushita, he was drafted seventh overall by the Hankyu Braves ( currently the Orix Buffaloes ) in 1968.

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After his major league career, Williams found much more success in Japan playing for the Hankyu Braves.

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He later became a television personality in Japan after playing 2 seasons for the Hankyu Braves.

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* Japan Series: Hiroshima Toyo Carp over Hankyu Braves ( 4-3 )

* Japan Series: Yakult Swallows over Hankyu Braves ( 4 – 3 )

The of Hankyu Railway is one of the three major commuter heavy rail line in the Keihanshin conurbation of Japan.

Hanshin Electric Railway Main Line and West Japan Railway Company ( JR West ) Tokaido Main Line ( this section nicknamed JR Kobe Line ) are the two lines perpendicular to the Hankyu Kobe Line with short distances.

is the terminal station of the Hankyu Kyoto Line of Hankyu Railway in Kyoto, Japan.

is a station of Hankyu Railway located in Jūsō, Yodogawa-ku, Osaka, Japan.

It is connected to central by Hankyu Railway, West Japan Railway Company and the Osaka Municipal Subway.

Takatsuki-shi is serviced by two train lines: JR ( Japan Railway Company ) and Hankyu.

The Takarazuka Revue was founded by Ichizo Kobayashi, an industrialist-turned-politician and president of Hankyu Railways, in Takarazuka, Japan in 1913.

is a railway station in Takarazuka, Japan, operated by Hankyu Railway.

The sale was a surprise, because it was much rarer in those days in Japan for the ownership of a professional baseball team to change, not to mention for a large company to sell one of its parts ; Hankyu Railway was thought of as one of the big companies that would never need to do such a thing.

* September 1, 1951: NJB started radio broadcasting from Hankyu Department Store as the second commercial one in Japan.

is a railway line in Kyoto, Japan, operated by Hankyu Railway.

The is a railway line of Hankyu Railway in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.

* Japan Series: Yomiuri Giants over Hankyu Braves ( 4 – 1 )

* Japan Series: Yomiuri Giants over Hankyu Braves ( 4 – 1 )

* Japan Series: Hankyu Braves over Yomiuri Giants ( 4-1 )

* Japan Series: Hankyu Braves over Hiroshima Toyo Carp ( 4-0-1 )

* Japan Series: Hankyu Braves over Yomiuri Giants ( 4-3 )

* Japan Series: Yomiuri Giants over Hankyu Braves ( 4-2 )

* Japan Series: Yomiuri Giants over Hankyu Braves ( 4 – 2 )

* Japan Series: Yomiuri Giants over Hankyu Braves ( 4-2 )