Question: The level of baseball that Chunichi Dragons is in is referred to as what outside Japan?

Context articles: Kazuhiro Wada
List of Chunichi Dragons managers
Hidenori Kuramoto
2009 Chunichi Dragons season
Ryosuke Nomura
Bungo Shirai
Atsushi Fujii
Nippon Professional Baseball
1988 Japan Series
Ryosuke Hirata

Kazuhiro Wada (和田 一浩 , "Wada Kazuhiro" , born June 19, 1972 in Gifu, Gifu, Japan) is a retired Japanese professional baseball player.
 He played mostly as an outfielder for the Chunichi Dragons and the Seibu Lions of the Nippon Professional Baseball league in a career spanning 18 years.
 Following retirement in 2015, he has become a color commentator for Dragons broadcasts for the NHK.
The Chunichi Dragons are a professional baseball team based in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.
 The Dragons are members of the Central League (CL) in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
 In baseball, the head coach of a team is called the manager, or more formally, the field manager.
 The duties of the team manager include team strategy and leadership on and off the field.
Hidenori Kuramoto (英智, born May 9, 1976 in Hashima, Gifu Prefecture) was a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
 He has played for the Dragons from 2001 to 2012.
 He is currently employed with the Dragons as the third-base coach.
The 2009 Chunichi Dragons season features the Dragons quest to win their first Central League baseball title since 2006.
 The season did not start off well as the team was absorbing the loss of longtime staff ace Kenshin Kawakami, who departed via free agency.
 As the season progressed, the Dragons' pitching came into their own, led by Taiwanese ace Chen Wei-Yin, Kazuki Yoshimi, Kenta Asakura, and young lefty Yudai Kawai, who won eleven starts (eight in a row) before taking his first loss of the season on August 6.
 Chen had the lowest ERA of any pitcher in the last 40 years in Japan (1.54) despite having an unspectacular 8-4 record.
 However, he lost out in the Sawamura Award voting to Saitama Seibu Lions ace Hideaki Wakui.
Ryosuke Nomura (野村 亮介 , Nomura Ryosuke , born July 9, 1993 in Shimizu, Shizuoka) is a Japanese baseball pitcher who plays for Chunichi Dragons in Nippon Professional Baseball.
Bungo Shirai (白井 文吾 , Shirai Bungo , born 27 January 1928) is a Japanese journalist and businessman, who is the president of Chunichi Shimbun and owner of Nippon Professional Baseball team, the Chunichi Dragons.
Atsushi Fujii (藤井淳志, born May 20, 1981 in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture) is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
 He has played for the Dragons since 2006.
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.
The 1988 Japan Series was the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) championship series for the 1988 season.
 It was the 39th Japan Series and featured the Central League champion Chunichi Dragons against the Pacific League champion Seibu Lions.
 Chunichi won the Central League pennant by a comfortable 12 games to advance to the championship.
 However, the representative from the Pacific League was undecided up until 3 days before Game 1 of the Japan Series.
 Seibu fought neck-and-neck for first place with the Kintetsu Buffaloes over most of the season and finished their regular-season schedule with a 0.5-game advantage over Kintetsu, with Kintetsu having 4 games left to play.
 On the last day of the season (October 19), Kintetsu had to win both games of an away double-header against the last-place Lotte Orions to claim the PL pennant.
 Kintetsu won the first game by one run (by scoring one run in the top of the ninth inning), but Lotte forced a comeback tie in the second game, capping a dramatic finish to the season (known to Japanese baseball fans as 10.19) and giving Seibu the PL spot in the Japan Series for the fourth year in a row.
Ryosuke Hirata (平田 良介, born March 23, 1988 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
 He has played for the Dragons since 2006.