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Toshimasa Uemura (Japanese: 上村 敏正 Uemura Toshimasa), born on May 25 1957, is a Japanese high school baseball coach from Shizuoka Prefecture. He was a catcher as an active player.

Career
He was born in the present Tenryū ward of Hamamatsu. He went to Futamata Middle School before entering Hamamatsu Commercial High School in Shizuoka. In 1975, he participated in Japan´s 57th National High School Baseball Championship and advanced to the third round. Playing as a catcher with the shirt number 1, he took the lead the first round against Ryūgasaki Daiichi High School in Ibaraki Prefecture. At Waseda University, he switched to semi-hard baseball, as a catcher, pitcher, and outfielder. During the 8th season, he won seven times.

After graduating in 1980, he started coaching at Hamamatsu Commercial High School and transferred to Gotenba High School in 1981. However, none of his teams won during the three years he worked as a coach.

Uemura went back to Hamamatsu in 1984, where he was both a coach and the team captain. His team won the Shizuoka Prefecture preliminaries. When they participated in Japan´s 66th National High School Baseball Championship, he put vice captain Tomoyuki Morishita in charge as a coach while he himself participated as captain. Since he began working as a coach at Hamamatsu Commercial High School, he participated four times during spring and two times during summer. In 1986, the team he coached won against PL Academy, who they had lost to in the previous year, in the 58th National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament, also known as the Spring Kōshien or Senbatsu. Having achieved their first Kōshien win, they reached the quarterfinals in the 70th National High School Baseball Championship.

Uemura retired in 1997 and worked at the Mikkabi Youth Center in Shizuoka Prefecture, after which he started working as a coach again at Hamamatsu Minami High School. He then participated in the 81th National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament in 2009, leading Kakegawa Nishi High School.

In the present, he is instructing at Saint Christopher High School.

Coached players

 * Kokoro Sano