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Suzuki in 2010, photo by Guemes007 /Bigstock.com
Place of Birth: Nishikasugai-gun, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Date of Birth: 22 October, 1973
Ethnicity: Japanese
Ichirō Suzuki (鈴木 一朗, Suzuki Ichirō) is a Japanese professional baseball player. A right fielder, he played for a total of twenty eight professional seasons, for Orix BlueWave of the Pacific League, and the Seattle Mariners, the New York Yankees, and the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball (MLB). He is also known simply as Ichirō (イチロー, Ichirō).
His father is Nobuyuki Suzuki. He was raised in Toyoyama, a town outside Nagoya. Ichirō is married to television announcer Yumiko Fukushima, of TBS TV.