2026 Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Election

The following were the candidates for the 2026 Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Election. Inductees are listed in bold.

Players Division Ballot (256 of 341 votes needed)

• Masahiro Kawai - 254
• Shinya Miyamoto - 232
• Kazuo Matsui - 222
• Masumi Kuwata - 152
• Koji Uehara - 145
• Nobuhiko Matsunaka - 100
• Shinnosuke Abe - 85
• Tuffy Rhodes - 85
• Kenji Johjima - 72
• Takuro Ishii - 70
• Kyuji Fujikawa - 66
• Tadahito Iguchi - 56
• Atsunori Inaba - 55
• Michihiro Ogasawara - 47
• Tomonori Maeda - 42
• Takeshi Yamasaki - 26
• Takahiro Arai - 24
• Hiroki Kokubo - 24
• Hisashi Iwakuma - 22
• Shinji Sasaoka - 19
• Norihiro Akahoshi - 18
• So Taguchi - 14
• Ryota Igarashi - 5

Expert Division Ballot (113 of 151 votes needed)

• Hideki Kuriyama - 114
• Tokuji Nagaike - 95
• Akinobu Okada - 95
• Boomer Wells - 61
• Sohachi Aniya - 36
• Keiji Osawa - 34
• Kenichi Yazawa - 35
• Hiromasa Arai - 27
• Isao Shibata - 32
• Michiyo Arito - 27
• Hideji Kato - 21
• Masataka Nashida - 19
• Yasunori Oshima - 17
• Shigeru Sugimura, 16
• Kenjiro Nomura - 15
• Hisanobu Watanabe - 15
• Masayuki Dobashi - 14
• Mitsuhiro Adachi - 13
• Hatsuhiko Tsuji - 8
• Takao Obana - 2

Special Division Ballot (11 of 14 votes needed)

• Tetsuya Usami - 8
• Yoshinobu Suzuki - 8
• Kyushi Yamato - 6
• Tadashi Bito - 5
• Toshi Kaneko - 3
• Toru Nomura - 3
• Katsunari Miyai - 2
• Akio Takahashi - 1
• Saburo Saito - 1
• Hyotaro Kondo - 0

Source: Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame