page_title: Munenori Kawasaki
section_title: Seattle Mariners
hierarchical_section_title: Munenori Kawasaki / Early life and career / Seattle Mariners
caption_attribution_description: Munenori Kawasaki
context_page_description: Munenori Kawasaki is a retired Japanese professional baseball shortstop and second baseman. He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, and in Major League Baseball for the Seattle Mariners, Toronto Blue Jays, and Chicago Cubs. He played for the Japanese national team in the 2008 Beijing Olympics as well as the 2006 and 2009 World Baseball Classics. Following the Chicago Cubs' 2016 World Series championship, Kawasaki joined Daisuke Matsuzaka and Koji Uehara as the only Japanese players to have won championships in the World Baseball Classic, Japan Series and World Series.
caption: Kawasaki during his tenure with the Seattle Mariners in 2012
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