Can any one give me news on these guys?

The first place to look is their profiles:

• Yoshinobu Takahashi
• Hayato Terahara

I don't know of a Tomoyuki Kubota, but there is an Atsushi Kubota with Orix (originally drafted by Hanshin in 2000).

There is an interesting thread on Terahara going on here. More news on him can be found here.

All of these search results may not be about Takahashi, but a large majority are.

Please look through what's here and let me know if there's anything more in particular that you're looking for.

Hayato Terahara had a nice outing for Daiei against Seibu Thursday, going six innings and allowing two runs on four hits and striking out eight (a career high, iirc) and walking three. His pitch count was 108, a bit higher than you would like, but geez, he's 18 years old. He reportedly hit 94 on the gun and was in the 90's most of the night. He's someone who depends on leg explosion for his power and I think you'll see his velocity increase into his early 20's. The fact that he has a curve ball that, according to MLB scouts, is a plus pitch is going to help him enourmously.

The best thing about that start for Daiei was that one of their starters actually went more than four innings, since Hawks starters have been getting a lot of early showers lately. Of course, the bad thing is, and I think Sadaharu Oh will admit this, is that they have to use Terahara for more innings this season than they had originally intended if he's going to be their only consistent starter. That's a big mental and physical burden to put on a teenager. So let's hope that Yamada, Nagai, Wakatabe, et. al. find a good groove and Terahara can revert back to a spot starter role.

Terahara's overall stats: 3-1, 3.72 ERA in 36.1 innings, striking out 28 and walking nine with 35 hits given up (three homers) and two wild pitches. Not bad.

As for Takahashi, he has started really slow the last couple of seasons and had a God awful spring, but he has come out of the gate like gangbusters, though he has cooled off in May. Nevertheless, he is batting .312 with eight homers, eight doubles and 25 RBIs and has a decent OPS of .851. He has struckout 21 times in 212 plate appearances (15%), so he's having a nice, if hardly breathtaking, little season. Takahashi tends to be a second half player, though, so I expect he will be upwards of 30 homers this year with a .300 average when it's all said and done. Just hope he doesn't take any more shots in the nads like he did a couple of weeks to do when an Inaba line drive got him there.

Kubota is a young pitcher with Hanshin. He's got a bit of zip, but not the stability of control to command a regular place in the rotation. His figures so far in 2004: 6 games, 2 wins, 3 losses, 6.45 ERA, 28 strike-outs.

He's currently getting his affairs in order on the farm.

Sorry, but I speak English and don't know who those guys are. Maybe you should try Google.