question: Which player who has recorded the most hits of any foreign-born player in MLB won the Japan Professional Sports Grand Prize?
answer: Ichiro Suzuki
context: Title: Nihon SF Taisho Award
  Passage: The Nihon SF Taishō Award (日本SF大賞 , Nihon Esu Efu Taishō , lit.  "Japan SF Grand Prize") is a Japanese science fiction award.  It has been compared to the Nebula Award as it is given by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan or SFWJ.  The Grand Prize is selected from not only Science Fiction novels, but also various SF movies, animations, and manga.
  Title: Niall Lepper
  Passage: Niall Lepper (born June 23, 1981 in Falkirk, Scotland) is a former Scottish international soccer player who competed for the Under 18 Scottish national team before playing NCAA Division I soccer, first for a year at Mount Saint Mary's (1999) before transferring for his final three seasons at Loyola College in Maryland (2000–2002).  Following the conclusion of his collegiate career, Lepper was drafted in the first round and signed by the Baltimore Blast of the NISL (then MISL), but quickly withdrew from the indoor game and returned to Loyola to pursue his MBA and serve as the Greyhounds' assistant coach for the 2004 and 2005 seasons.  Arguably considered to be the best senior central defender in college following the 2002 season, Lepper was mentioned as a possible first or second round draft pick of several MLS teams but due to strict foreign-born player rules that were then in effect, was never selected.
  Title: Alex Ramírez
  Passage: Alexander Ramón Ramírez Quiñónez (born 15 August 1974) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball outfielder who had a long career in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).  He is the first foreign-born player to record 2,000 hits while playing in NPB.  Before playing in Japan, he played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Indians (1998–2000) and Pittsburgh Pirates (2000).  He batted and threw right-handed.
  Title: Big Brother Africa 5
  Passage: Big Brother Africa 5 (also known as Big Brother Africa: All-Stars) was the fifth season of the "Big Brother Africa" reality television series produced by Endemol.  The season premiered on Sunday, July 18, 2010 and was broadcast by M-Net and M-NetAfrica for 91 days, concluding on October 17, 2010 when Nigeria's Uti was crowned the ultimate winner.  Each week the Housemates nominated two of their own and the public voted to either save or evict them until only 5 Housemates remained on finale night.  The grand prize for this season was initially $200,000, however, due to the strike that took place on Day 6, the grand prize was decreased by ten percent meaning that the winner will now receive $180,000.  Since that incident and toward the end of the series, the grand prize has been reinstated as $200,000 although this reinstatement was never formally announced to the housemates and the public.  14 African countries took part in this year's series, namely: Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe)
  Title: Professional sports in the Western United States
  Passage: Professional sports have existed in the United States since the late 19th century.  The NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL have millions of fans across the nation, and are an important part of American culture.  Professional sports did not enter into the American West until the mid-twentieth century.  However, the expansion of professional sports into the West has helped to increase the popularity of each of the professional leagues and has changed the landscape of professional sports in America.
  Title: Japan Professional Sports Grand Prize
  Passage: Japan Professional Sports Grand Prize (日本プロスポーツ大賞 , Nippon Puro Supōtsu Taisyō ) is given to one sportsperson or sports team every year since 1968 by the Japan Professional Sports Association.  The award is one of the most prestigious all-sport awards in Japanese sport.  The recordholders are the baseball players Ichiro Suzuki and Sadaharu Oh (three awards).  A committee of representatives from Tokyo newspapers, wire services, television and radio for sports media are responsible for making the selections.  The winner is given the Prime Minister Trophy.
  Title: Ichiro Suzuki
  Passage: Ichiro Suzuki (鈴木 一朗 , Suzuki Ichirō , born October 22, 1973) , often referred to mononymously as Ichiro (イチロー , Ichirō ) , is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball (MLB).  Some regard him to be the best hitter of the modern era.  With 26 seasons combined in top-level professional leagues, he has spent the bulk of his career with two teams: nine seasons with the Orix Blue Wave of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) in Japan, where he began his career, and 12 with the Seattle Mariners of MLB in the United States.  After playing for the Mariners, he played two and a half seasons in MLB with the New York Yankees before signing with his current club, the Marlins.  Ichiro has established a number of batting records, including MLB's single-season record for hits with 262.  He achieved 10 consecutive 200-hit seasons, the longest streak by any player in history.  Between his major league career in both Japan and the United States, Ichiro has the most hits by any player in top-tier professional leagues.  He also has recorded the most hits of any foreign-born player in MLB.
  Title: Dengeki Comic Grand Prix
  Passage: The Dengeki Comic Grand Prix (電撃コミックグランプリ , Dengeki Komikku Guran Puri ) is an award handed out semiannually (from 2004–2009) and annually (since 2010) by the Japanese publisher ASCII Media Works (formerly MediaWorks) for original one-shot manga.  Between the first and fifth contests held, there were two divisions: original and anthology.  This was changed with the sixth contest to a "Daioh"/"Gao! " division which covered shōnen manga, and a "Sylph" division which covered shōjo manga.  Between the seventh and twelfth contests, the two divisions were changed to simply shōnen and shōjo manga.  Starting with the 13th contest in 2011, a seinen manga division was added.  There are three types of prizes given out each contest: the Grand Prix Prize (2 million yen), the Semi-Grand Prix Prize (500,000 yen), and the Excellence Prize (300,000 yen).  The Grand Prix Prize has only been handed out four times in the contest's history: in 2004, 2005, 2010 and 2012.  There was also once a "Dengeki Moeoh" Grand Prize division which was held twice with a Grand Prize and Honorable Mentions.
  Title: Jean Deplace
  Passage: Jean Deplace (c. 1944 – 30 November 2015) was a French cellist.  Many well-known cellists studied with Deplace.  Deplace studied with Maurice Maréchal and won first prize for cello in 1963 at the Paris Conservatory.  Deplace went on to win awards in international competitions including; the Grand Prize of the Geneva International Competition, the Budapest Grand Prize and the Florence Grand Prize.  Deplace was also the recipient of a Sasha Schneider Foundation award.  Deplace performed with leading orchestras including Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre de Monte Carlo, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and at the Musica Maggio Fiorentino.
  Title: Tricorder X Prize
  Passage: The Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE was an inducement prize contest, that originally offered a US$7 million grand prize, US$2 million second prize, and US$1 million third prize to the best among the finalists offering an automatic non-invasive health diagnostics system in a single portable package that weighs no more than 5 pounds (2.3 kg), able to autonomously diagnose 13 medical conditions (12 diseases and the 'absence of conditions'), including anemia, atrial fibrillation (AFib), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), diabetes, leukocytosis, pneumonia, otitis media, sleep apnea, and urinary tract infection.  The winning devices must also be able to continuously record and stream the 5 main vital signs: blood pressure, heart rate, oxygen saturation, respiratory rate and temperature.  The name is taken from the tricorder device from the science fiction TV series "Star Trek" which can be used to instantly diagnose ailments.  The prize was initially announced by the X PRIZE Foundation on 10 May 2011 and subsequently launched on 10 January 2012 at CES 2012.  Devices were sent to the University of California San Diego to be independently tested on patients during the winter and spring of 2015, and again in late 2016 at the Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute (ACTRI) at UCSD.  Although no team successfully met all the requirements of the grand prize, the competition was concluded in April 2017 when the XPRIZE Foundation awarded reduced prizes to the strongest performing teams.  Most notably, Final Frontier Medical Devices was awarded US$2.6 million and Dynamical Biomarkers won US$1 million.  A third team, Cloud DX, was named "Bold Epic Innovator" and awarded US$100,000 for achieving the main milestones of the competition while missing a crucial deadline.  Earlier in 2016, some of the funds from the original prize purse were awarded to semi-finalist teams for hitting technology milestones.  For the first time at any XPRIZE, the leftover funds from the main prize purse have been earmarked for further development, consumer testing and commercialization of tricorder prototypes for the two finalists and four semi-finalist teams as part of the Post Prize Initiative.
citations: Japan Professional Sports Grand Prize Ichiro Suzuki