Meikyukai
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The Meikyukai is sometimes called one of the Japanese baseball Halls of Fame but this designation is not technically correct as the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame is the lone such institution.
To be honored as part of the Meikyukai, a player has to reach the 2,000-hit plateau, 200 career victories or 250 saves in Nippon Pro Baseball and Major League Baseball. Occasionally, other players can be added who have not reached any of those levels - for instance, Yutaka Fukumoto was added when he reached 800 career steals (he later accumulated 2,000 hits). Some gaijin who have reached the level have not been added to the Meikyukai. Hiromitsu Ochiai is the only player to turn down membership (as he felt the guidelines were too arbitrary) while Yutaka Enatsu gave up his membership due to a drug scandal.
[edit] Present Members
- Koji Akiyama
- Hiromasa Arai
- Michiyo Aritoh
- Masahiro Doi
- Shinichi Etoh
- Taira Fujita
- Yutaka Fukumoto
- Atsuya Furuta
- Isao Harimoto
- Osamu Higashio
- Masaji Hiramatsu
- Yoshinori Hirose
- Tsuneo Horiuchi
- Kazuhisa Inao
- Takuro Ishii
- Hiromitsu Kadota
- Takao Kajimoto
- Masaichi Kaneda
- Tomoaki Kanemoto
- Eiji Kato
- Sachio Kinugasa
- Manabu Kitabeppu
- Kazuhiro Kiyohara
- Norihiro Komada
- Masaaki Koyama
- Kimiyasu Kudoh
- Tomonori Maeda
- Makoto Matsubara
- Hideki Matsui
- Mutsuo Minagawa
- Choji Murata
- Minoru Murayama
- Shigeo Nagashima
- Hideo Nomo
- Katsuya Nomura
- Kenjiro Nomura
- Sadaharu Oh
- Yasunori Oshima
- Katsuo Ohsugi
- Kazuhiro Sasaki
- Isao Shibata
- Ichiro Suzuki
- Keishi Suzuki
- Morimichi Takagi
- Shingo Takatsu
- Kazuyoshi Tatsunami
- Tsutomu Wakamatsu
- Hisashi Yamada
- Koji Yamamoto
- Kazuhiro Yamauchi
- Hiroyuki Yamazaki
- Yukio Tanaka
- Kenichi Yazawa
- Tetsuya Yoneda
