Hitoe Arakaki (born 1981), the oldest member of the J-pop group SPEED in Japan
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Hisako Arakaki (born 1977), Ryukyuan J-pop singer from Okinawa, Japan
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Ernesto Arakaki (born 1979), Peruvian football defender of Japanese descent playing for Alianza Lima
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Nagisa Arakaki (born 1980), professional baseball player in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball
However, control has always been Arakaki's Achilles' heel, as he set the NPB record for wild pitches in 2007, a record that had been previously held by Kazuhisa Ishii, who was also a power pitcher with great breaking balls, but was also well known for his control problems.