Kirk here with a home-town-boy-makes-good story. Munetaka Murakami graduated from Kyushu Gakuin High School just a few years ago (Spring of 2018). Today, I learned that he has signed for 220,000,000 yen per year beginning in 2022. That’s 2.2 oku (2.2億) or about 2 million US and is more than Ichiro or Hideki Matsui were earning at similar points in their careers.
What I have just written is a summary of what I found in this Japanese article: https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/9c7b6d13c57fd46dcee0e6d2cb0ac9920f04d0fc
The English article is about him being voted most valuable player: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20211215/p2g/00m/0sp/072000c
