The award has drawn criticism in recent years because several players with experience in Nippon Professional Baseball ( NPB ) have won the award, such as Hideo Nomo in 1995, Kazuhiro Sasaki in 2000, and Ichiro Suzuki in 2001.

Dole further enhanced this contrast on September 18 when he made a reference to a no-hitter thrown the day before by Hideo Nomo of the “ Brooklyn Dodgers ”, a team that had left Brooklyn for Los Angeles four decades earlier.

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He is also one of only five players to throw a no-hitter in both leagues, the others being Young, Johnson, Nolan Ryan and Hideo Nomo.

Some notable Japanese players who have gone on to play in North America's Major League Baseball include Norichika Aoki, Yu Darvish, Hideo Nomo, Kazuhiro Sasaki, Ichiro Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Shinjo, Tadahito Iguchi, Kenji Johjima, Hideki Matsui, So Taguchi, Hideki Irabu, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Hideki Okajima, Kazuo Matsui, Kazuhito Tadano, Hiroki Kuroda, Akinori Iwamura, Akinori Otsuka, Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Kosuke Fukudome, Koji Uehara, Kenshin Kawakami, Takashi Saito, and Tsuyoshi Nishioka.

The wave of players moving to Major League Baseball, which began with Hideo Nomo " retiring " from the Kintetsu Buffaloes, then signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers, has also added to the financial problems.

Among them, Piazza caught two no-hitters thrown by Ramón Martínez and Hideo Nomo while playing with the Dodgers.

In both parks, the only pitcher to throw a no-hitter is Hideo Nomo.

* April 4, 2001: Hideo Nomo pitched the first no-hitter in the history of Camden Yards, walking three and striking out eleven.

Matsui's backers pointed to his higher RBI total and on-base percentage while playing in the media spotlight of New York City, and previous Rookie of the Year Awards having been given to countrymen Hideo Nomo and Ichiro Suzuki.

The perfect game made him the fifth pitcher in Major League history ( after Cy Young, Jim Bunning, Nolan Ryan, and Hideo Nomo ) to pitch a no-hitter in both leagues.

* Hideo Nomo worked in Shin-nittetsu Sakai and played on its club team before he was scouted by the Kintetsu Buffaloes.

The forkball has been favored by several current and former major league pitchers, including Hideo Nomo, José Valverde, Jose Arredondo, Kazuhiro Sasaki, José Contreras, Chien-Ming Wang and Edwar Ramirez.

In 1992 the Seattle Mariner players signed a petition to have their official scorer replaced, and in 2001 the management of the Boston Red Sox ordered that a rookie scorer not be allowed to score another game after pitcher Hideo Nomo lost a no-hitter on a close play in right field that was ruled a hit rather than an error.

Like Hideo Nomo and Hideki Irabu, who had previously left Japan to play in the United States, Soriano hired Don Nomura to help his situation.

* First No-hitter: September 17, 1996, Hideo Nomo ( Los Angeles Dodgers );

On April 15, 2004 Mark Loretta hit the first Padre home run off of Hideo Nomo of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

From to, he managed Eric Karros, Mike Piazza, Raúl Mondesí and Hideo Nomo.

A left-hander, Score struck out 245 batters in his rookie year, a rookie record that stood until, when it was topped by Dwight Gooden ( Score, Gooden, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Don Sutton, Gary Nolan, Kerry Wood, Mark Langston and Hideo Nomo were the only eight rookie pitchers to top 200 strikeouts in the 20th century ).

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Ball players Mark Grace, Pat Meares, Geoff Jenkins and Hideo Nomo have raced as sausages.

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In 2003, he won the Kobayashi Hideo Prize for his ' reading Natsume Soseki ,' and his collected works received the Fujimura Memorial prize.

In March 1995 Daisuke Kobayashi and Hideo Hashizume, the former owners of SR Sakae Ringyo, arranged a management buyout.

Hideo Murai ( 村井 秀夫 Murai Hideo, December 5, 1958-April 23, 1995 ) was a member of Aum Shinrikyo and a scientist.

* Wild Pitches: Hideo Nomo, 19 ( 1995 )

Walter Bernstein, a blacklisted scriptwriter, was commissioned by Morheim to produce the first draft " faithfully " adapted from the original script written by Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni and Akira Kurosawa ; when Mirisch and Brynner took over the production, they brought on Walter Newman, whose version " is largely what's on screen.

Among the key people credited with the construction of the first Shinkansen are – Hideo Shima, the Chief Engineer, and Shinji Sogo, the first President of Japanese National Railways ( JNR ) who managed to persuade politicians to back the plan.

Some of the first modern enka singers were Hachiro Kasuga, Michiya Mihashi, and Hideo Murata.

When Kyu Sakamoto took part in the Kōhaku Uta Gassen for the first time with the song " Ue o Muite Arukō " ( aka " Sukiyaki ") in 1961, Hideo Murata also made his debut with the song " Ōsho " at the same show.

Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear, released in 1987 for the MSX2 and the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988, utilized stealth elements within an action-adventure framework, and was the first mainstream stealth game to be released on consoles.

The then editor-in-chief of Animage, Hideo Ogata, was the first to publish editorials on the ongoing transformation of voice actors into idols.

Hideo Kojima's ambitious script in Metal Gear Solid 2 has been praised, some even calling it the first example of a postmodern video game.

Kunimi also displays inhuman amounts of stamina and focus ( during his first Koshien game in the manga, Hideo states that " He could pitch 18 innings and even then get a no-hitter ").

Hideo Kojima's ambitious script has been praised, some even calling it the first example of a postmodern video game.

The Twin Snakes was first announced in 2003 by Nintendo of America, confirming that Silicon Knights would be developing under the guidance of legendary developers, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima and Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto.

It is a sequel to Antarctic Adventure and has the distinction of being the first game that game designer Hideo Kojima worked on ; he was an assistant designer.

Hansen defeated Hideo Tokoro on 25 September at Dream 16 with a Submission ( Triangle Choke ) 2: 48 in the first round.

It was designed by Masato Kato, who took over for Hideo Yoshizawa — designer of the first two games in the NES series.

On June 15, 2005, he collected his first major league hit, a double, off Hideo Nomo, and drove in his first big league run with his second hit of the night at Tampa Bay.

Hideo Ohno and his group at the Tohoku University were the first to measure ferromagnetism in transition metal doped compound semiconductors such as indium arsenide and gallium arsenide doped with manganese referred to as GaMnAs.

He has been NESN's play-by-play man since the beginning of the 2001 season ( his first game included a no-hitter thrown by then Red Sox pitcher Hideo Nomo against the Baltimore Orioles ).

Urban Vision's Live action production / distribution subsidiary AsiaVision was launched in March, 2006 their first release for this label was Curse, Death & Spirit, an anthology of three short horror stories directed by Hideo Nakata ( director of Ringu, The Ring 2 ).