Last week, the Yomiuri Giants announced that their new manager would be Hall Of Famer Hideki Matsui. Matsui will be the first former MLB player to helm the Giants and will be their first "official manager" to have ever worn a professional baseball uniform OTHER than the Giants - although none of those uniforms were for other NPB teams.
I think this will make seven of the twelve current NPB managers to have played in the US. Matsui, Rakuten's Masato Yoshii, Nippon-Ham's Tsuyoshi Shinjo and Hanshin's Kyuji Fujikawa all played in MLB while the Dragons' Kimiyasu Kudoh played for San Jose in the California League, Fumiya Nishiguchi of the Lions briefly played for Sioux City of the Northern League and the Hawks' Hiroki Kokubo played in the Hawaiian Winter League in 1994.
Here's a card of Hideki Matsui from the 2001 Upper Deck set (#66):
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