Question: Akihito Kondo is a former pitcher for the highest level of baseball in Japan and is locally often called what?

full_context: Document 1: Kimiyasu Kudoh: Kimiyasu Kudoh (工藤 公康 , Kudō Kimiyasu , born May 5, 1963 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan) is a left-handed former pitcher for the Pacific League's Saitama Seibu Lions of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). During his career, he recorded 224 career wins. Among other records, he was the oldest pitcher in NPB history to strike out 10 batters in a game, doing so at the age of 41 years and 11 months.
Document 2: Chan Ho Park: Chan Ho Park (Korean: 박찬호 ; ] ; born June 30, 1973) is a South Korean former professional baseball pitcher. He played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Texas Rangers, San Diego Padres, New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees, and Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball (MLB), the Orix Buffaloes of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), and the Hanwha Eagles of the KBO League. He was the first South Korean-born player in major league history. Park has the most career wins, 124, of any Asian-born pitcher in history. He passed Hideo Nomo for the most ever by an Asian-born pitcher in 2010. He is 6'2" (188 cm) tall and weighs 210 lbs (95 kg).
Document 3: Yasuhito Endō: Yasuhito Endō (遠藤 保仁 , Endō Yasuhito , born 28 January 1980 in Sakurajima in Kagoshima Prefecture) is a Japanese footballer, who currently plays for the J. League team Gamba Osaka. His older brother Akihiro, who retired in 2008, is also a former professional footballer, and was selected as one of Japan under-23 national football team members played at 1996 Olympics. He is considered a cult hero at Gamba Osaka and the Japan National Football Team. It is because he has formidable passing ability, leadership, and goal scoring ability. He is also known for his excellent accuracy on free kicks and is revered as one of Japan's most creative midfielders as well as one of the most talented Japanese footballers of his generation, despite only playing domestically in his home country.
Document 4: Masaichi Kaneda: Masaichi Kaneda (金田 正一 , Kaneda Masaichi , born August 1, 1933 in Heiwa, Aichi Prefecture, Japan) is a Zainichi Korean–Japanese former professional baseball pitcher. He is one of the best-known pitchers in Japanese baseball history, and is the only Japanese pitcher to have won 400 games. He was inducted in the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988.
Document 5: Yamato Baseball Club: The Yamato Baseball Club was a Japanese baseball team in the Japanese Baseball League (JBL). Based in Tokyo, the franchise was founded as the Korakuen Eagles before the 1937 season and was dissolved before the 1944 season.
Document 6: Shochiku Robins: The Shochiku Robins was a Japanese baseball team that played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). The franchise originated in the Japanese Baseball League (NPB's predecessor) and existed from 1936–1953, when it merged with another team. Originally based in Tokyo, the club moved to Osaka in 1941.
Document 7: Sandy Koufax: Sanford Koufax ( ; born Sanford Braun; December 30, 1935) is a former American Major League Baseball (MLB) left-handed pitcher. He pitched 12 seasons for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers, from 1955 to 1966. Koufax, at age 36 in 1972, became the youngest player ever elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Document 8: Shuuto: The shuuto (シュート ) or shootball is a pitch commonly thrown by several right-handed Japanese pitchers such as Hiroki Kuroda, Noboru Akiyama, Kenjiro Kawasaki, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Yu Darvish and Masumi Kuwata. The most renowned "shuuto" pitcher in history was Masaji Hiramatsu, whose famous pitch was dubbed the "razor" "shuuto" because it seemed to "cut the air" when thrown.
Document 9: Posting system: The posting system (ポスティングシステム , posutingu shisutemu ) is a baseball player transfer system that operates between Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and the United States' Major League Baseball (MLB), or between the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) and MLB. Despite the drafting of the United States – Japanese Player Contract Agreement, unveiled in 1967 to regulate NPB players moving to MLB, problems began to arise in the late 1990s. Some NPB teams lost star players without compensation, an issue highlighted when NPB stars Hideo Nomo and Alfonso Soriano left to play in MLB after using loopholes to void their existing contracts. A further problem was that NPB players had very little negotiating power if their teams decided to deal them to MLB, as when pitcher Hideki Irabu was traded to an MLB team for which he had no desire to play. In 1998, the Agreement was rewritten to address both problems; the result was dubbed the "posting system".
Document 10: Japan Series: The Japan Championship Series (日本選手権シリーズ , Nippon Senshuken Shiriizu ) , or Japan Series (日本シリーズ , Nippon Shiriizu ) is the annual championship series in Nippon Professional Baseball, the top baseball league in Japan. It is a seven-game series between the winning clubs of the league's two circuits, the Central League and the Pacific League. The Series is the highest level of play in professional baseball in Japan. It is usually played in October or November. As in all of the best-of-seven series, the first team to win four games is the overall winner and is declared the Japan Series Champion (日本一 , Nippon Ichi , number one in Japan) each year. The winner of the Japan Series also goes on to be the Japanese representative team in the annual Asia Series.
Document 11: Saitama Seibu Lions: The Saitama Seibu Lions (埼玉西武ライオンズ , Saitama Seibu Raionzu ) are a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League based north of Tokyo in Tokorozawa, Saitama. Before 1979, they were based in Fukuoka in Kyushu. The team is owned by a subsidiary of Prince Hotels, which in turn is owned by the Seibu Group. The team experienced a recent period of financial difficulty, but the situation brightened when the team received a record ¥6 billion (about $51.11 million) posting fee from the Boston Red Sox for the right to negotiate a contract with Daisuke Matsuzaka. Between 1978 and 2008, the team logo and mascot were based on the adult version of Kimba the White Lion, a classic Japanese anime series by Osamu Tezuka. In 2004, former Seibu Lions player Kazuo Matsui became the first Japanese infielder to play in Major League Baseball.
Document 12: Shohei Otani: Shohei Otani (大谷 翔平 , Ohtani Shōhei , born July 5, 1994) is a Japanese baseball pitcher and outfielder who currently plays for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball's (NPB) Pacific League. He was the first pick of the Fighters in the 2012 draft. He has officially recorded the fastest pitch by a Japanese pitcher and in NPB history at 165 km/h .
Document 13: Nippon Professional Baseball: Nippon Professional Baseball (日本野球機構 , Nippon Yakyū Kikō ) or NPB is the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it is often called Puro Yakyū (プロ野球 ) , meaning "Professional Baseball". Outside Japan, it is often just referred to as "Japanese baseball". The roots of the league can be traced back to the formation of the "Greater Japan Tokyo Baseball Club" (大日本東京野球倶楽部 , Dai-Nippon Tōkyō Yakyū Kurabu ) in 1934 and the original Japanese Baseball League. NPB was formed when that league reorganized in 1950.
Document 14: 2008 Nippon Professional Baseball season: The 2008 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 59th season since the NPB was reorganized in 1950 . The regular season started on March 20 with the Pacific League opener, and on March 28 with the Central League opener. On March 25 and 26, the Boston Red Sox and Oakland Athletics played 2 regular season Major League Baseball games at Tokyo Dome. During their visit, they also played exhibition games against the Hanshin Tigers and Yomiuri Giants.
Document 15: Akihito Kondo: Akihito Kondo (近藤 昭仁 , Kondo Akihito , born April 1, 1938) is a former Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher. He played for the Taiyō Whales from 1960 to 1973. Kondo was named the Japan Series Most Valuable Player in 1960. He later managed the Yokohama BayStars from 1993 to 1995 and the Chiba Lotte Marines in 1997 and 1998.
ground_truth: Puro Yakyū