2025 Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Election

The following were the candidates for the 2025 Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Election. Inductees are listed in bold.

Players Division Ballot (262 of 349 votes needed)

• Masahiro Kawai - 211
• Shinji Sasaoka - 20
• Kenjiro Nomura - 60
• Masumi Kuwata - 112
• Tuffy Rhodes - 69
• Norihiro Akahoshi - 19
• Hiroki Kokubo - 14
• Takuro Ishii - 31
• Kenji Johjima - 39
• Shinya Miyamoto - 194
• Nobuhiko Matsunaka - 72
• Michihiro Ogasawara - 31
• Atsunori Inaba - 35
• Yoshinobu Takahashi - 8
• Tadahito Iguchi - 34
• Hitoki Iwase - 309
• Tomonori Maeda - 22
• Kazuo Matsui - 136
• Takeshi Yamasaki - 18
• Takuya Asao - 8
• Masahiro Araki - 9
• Tetsuya Yamaguchi - 3
• Takahiro Arai - 15
• Ichiro Suzuki - 323
• Koji Uehara - 102
• Shinnosuke Abe - 78
• So Taguchi - 11
• Kazuya Fukuura - 3

Expert Division Ballot (109 of 145 votes needed)

• Keiji Osawa - 38
• Masayuki Dobashi - 11
• Tokuji Nagaike - 84
• Isao Shibata - 28
• Hiromu Matsuoka - 10
• Masayuki Kakefu - 111
• Masataka Nashida - 18
• Yoshinori Sato - 12
• Hideji Kato - 18
• Boomer Wells - 48
• Yasunori Oshima - 23
• Kenichi Yazawa - 30
• Michiyo Arito - 21
• Mitsuhiro Adachi - 14
• Hiromasa Arai - 19
• Hideki Kuriyama - 85
• Sohachi Aniya - 28
• Hatsuhiko Tsuji - 6
• Akinobu Okada - 70
• Takao Obana - 4

Special Division Ballot (10 of 13 votes needed)

• Katsunari Miyai - 3
• Toshi Kaneko - 2
• Hiroya Tomizawa - 9
• Yoshinobu Suzuki - 4
• Kyushi Yamato - 4
• Akio Takahashi - 2
• Tadashi Bito - 7
• Tetsuya Usami - 6
• Saburo Saito - 1
• Hyotaro Kondo - 0

Source: Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame