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Takuya Hara (baseball)

Japanese baseball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ11409631 ↗
Source-derived summary

Takuya Hara (原 拓也, Hara Takuya; born May 18, 1984 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan) is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Orix Buffaloes in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

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The public source identifies “Takuya Hara (baseball)” as japanese baseball player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Takuya, Hara and baseball.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1984—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1984-05-18. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Takuya, Hara and baseball providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11409631. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1984.

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This entry incorporates text from “Takuya Hara (baseball)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.