With the return of Shigeo Nagashima as coach, he bro to the button-up collared uniform and introduced the Y-neck, with t...he caps, helmet colors and logo's in black, and the away uniforms changed to gray.
This uniform symbolizes the second Shigeo Nagashima era, and is remembered as a memory of the new mainstays such as Hideki Matsui , Tomohiro Nioka, and Koji Uehara, as well as the 1994 and 2000 Japan Series championships, and the Central League comeback championship in 1996, when they overturned a maximum 11.5-game lead in the so-called "make drama".
There were several changes made to the uniform while it was in use.