Also known as: Kintetsu Pearls (1950-1958), Kintetsu Buffalo (1959-1961), Kintetsu Buffaloes (1962-1998), Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes (1999-2004), Orix Buffaloes (2005-)

A professional baseball team in the Pacific League based in Osaka, Japan. It was founded in 1950 as the Kintetsu Pearls, owned by the Kinki Nippon Railway Co., and was the least successful team in the league (the only team in pro Japanese baseball to have never won a Japan Series).

It was sold in 2004 to the Orix Group, owner of the Orix Blue Wave baseball team, and the two teams were merged into the Orix Buffaloes.