Shohei Otani is a Japanese baseball pitcher, outfielder, and designated hitter who plays for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball's Pacific League. He was the first pick of the Fighters in the 2012 draft. He officially recorded the fastest pitch by a Japanese pitcher and in NPB history at 165 kilometres per hour.
This name was very popular in 1989, because when the current Emperor Akihito ascended to the throne, the new era began and it was named "heisei" and any name that had any of the two kanji "hei 平" or "sei 成", were very popular in that year.
Shohei Kato is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher. He was born on March 28, 1991. He is currently playing for the Chiba Lotte Marines of the NPB.
Shōhei Suzuki is a Japanese astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.In collaboration with Japanese astronomer Masanori Hirasawa, Suzuki discovered 52 numbered minor planets at Mount Nyukasa Station between 1991 and 1998. Both men are graduates of Waseda University, which they named an asteroid after in 1991.