Tsuyoshi Nakaima

{{short description|Japanese manga artist (born 1960)}}

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| name_nonEN = なかいま 強

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|4|13}}

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| area = Manga artist

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| notable works = Wataru Ga Pyun!
Ucchare Goshogawara
The Golden Rough

| awards = 43rd Shōnen Shogakukan Manga Award (1989)

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{{nihongo|Tsuyoshi Nakaima|なかいま 強|Nakaima Tsuyoshi}} is a Japanese manga artist who is the author and artist of sports manga. He is best known for the Sumo series Ucchare Goshogawara, for which he received the 1989 Shogakukan Manga Award in shōnen category.{{cite web | url=http://comics.shogakukan.co.jp/mangasho/rist.html | script-title=ja:小学館漫画賞: 歴代受賞者 | publisher=Shogakukan | language=Japanese | access-date=2008-06-16 | archive-date=2005-04-24 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050424231028/http://comics.shogakukan.co.jp/mangasho/rist.html }} and which got an OVA adaptation in 1991. Between 1999 and 2011, his golf manga The Golden Rough (Ougon no Rough ~Sōta no Stance~) was released in 33 tankōbon volumes.

Nakaima was an avid baseball player throughout high school and college but had to quit after shoulder injury. He became an assistant to Akio Chiba before creating manga on his own.

Nakaima is from Okinawa and it has been noted how some of his character use Okinawan Japanese.{{cite book|last1=Noguchi|first1=Mary Goebel|last2=Fotos|first2=Sandra|title=Studies in Japanese bilingualism|url=https://archive.org/details/studiesjapaneseb00nogu|url-access=limited|date=2001|publisher=Multilingual Matters Ltd|location=Clevedon [u.a.]|isbn=978-1-85359-489-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/studiesjapaneseb00nogu/page/n103 93]|edition=illustrated}}