Kazuma Okamoto was born in Gojo, a city of roughly 27,000 within Japan’s Nara Prefecture, on June 30, 1996. With multiple high schools interested in him attending their institution and actively “scouting” him, Okamoto decided on in Chiben Gakuen High School, a school known for baseball success and having multiple players eventually get drafted as professionals. While he was unable to help lead the school to a championship in the Spring or Summer Koshien over the three years he was enrolled there, he still made his mark, slugging 73 home runs over his three years there and becoming one of just 19 players in the 110-year history of Koshien to hit two home runs in a single tournament game.

Considered one of the top high school players available for the 2014 NPB Draft, and certainly the one w

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