EXPERTS & ADVISORS
Diamond Diplomacy boasts an award-winning line up of historians, academics, authors and baseball experts to help guide us in the production of the film.
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Robert Fitts
Award winning author & baseball historian
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Nobuhisa “Nobby” Ito
Official Historian and Player Negotiator at Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) in Japan.
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Kerry Yo Nakagawa
Author and producer is the foremost expert on Japanese-American baseball history
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Daniel Okimoto, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Political Science & Senior Fellow Emeritus at Stanford
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James Orr
Associate Professor & Chair of the East Asian Studies Department at Bucknell University
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Tom Schieber
Baseball historian & senior curator at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York
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Sayuri Guthrie Shimizu, PhD
History professor at Rice University & award winning author
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Bill Staples, Jr.
Historian and author of Japanese and Japanese American baseball.
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John Thorn
Official Historian of Major League Baseball
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Robert Whiting
Award-winning author is one of the foremost experts on the social, political, economic & sporting landscapes of Japan
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Kyoko Yoshida
Professor, University Kyoto, Kyoto Japan. Author and translator of baseball history.