2023夏季全国高校野球選手権大会／甲子園／東洋紡　　2023 Summer National High School Baseball Tournament in Japan / Koshien / TOYOBO

今年、2023年は先日、神奈川県代表の慶応義塾高校の優勝で幕を閉じました。

この高校の野球部の方針や活動がメディアでもよく取り上げられ、そして広島県の代表校の広陵がこの慶応義塾高校に3回戦で負けましたので、慶応を応援？しながら決勝戦をテレビで見ました。

この高校野球選手権大会が春と夏に行われるのは兵庫県の甲子園球場ですが、ダッグアウトの前には私がかつて若い時に勤めていた会社の会社名（東洋紡・TOYOBO）がずっと宣伝されていますので、プロ野球の時でもこの会社名を見て、加工技術研究所の研究員としての日々を思い出すことがあります。

なお、日本高等学校野球連盟（高野連）の第五代会長（2002年 - 2008年）は東洋紡の脇村春夫元専務で、上皇后美智子さまの従兄です。

彼は高校球児、東京大学野球部選手を経て、社会人野球の東洋紡富田と東洋紡岩国で三塁手として都市対抗野球大会にも出場。現在は、公益財団法人脇村奨学会代表理事。博士（経済学）（大阪大学）。

This year, 2023, it ended the other day with the victory of Keio Gijuku High School representing Kanagawa Prefecture.

As the policies and activities of the baseball team of this high school were often covered by the medias, and the representative school from Hiroshima Prefecture, Koryo, lost to Keio Gijuku High School in the third round, I watched their final game on TV while cheering for the Keio team.

The high school baseball tournaments in spring and in summer in Japan are held at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture, and in front of the dugouts, the name of the company, TOYOBO, where I used to work when I was young has long been advertised, so I am reminded of many things as a researcher at the company’s Research Institute of Processing Technology when I see this company name of TOYOBO even during watching professional baseball games.

Note that the fifth president (2002 - 2008) of the Japan High School Baseball Federation (Koyaren) is Mr. Haruo Wakiura, a former senior director of Toyobo, and a cousin of Empress Michiko.

He played baseball in high school and in Tokyo University before going on to play in the Inter-City Baseball Tournament as a third baseman for the Toyobo Tomita and Toyobo Iwakuni baseball teams. He is currently the president of the Wakimura Scholarship Foundation. PhD. in Economics (Osaka University).