The is a museum which includes a library, reference rooms and . It first opened in 1959 next door to Korakuen Stadium in

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, Japan. In 1988, the museum moved to a new site within the

Tokyo Dome is an indoor stadium in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. It was designed as a baseball stadium following its predecessor, Korakuen Stadium. Construction on the stadium began on May 16, 1985, and it opened on March 17, 1988. It was built on the site of th ...

. The Hall of Fame and Museum was created as a means to contribute to the development of baseball in Japan through dedication of baseball greats—players, executives, and

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—as Hall of Famers. In addition, the facility houses many memorable baseball materials including various kinds of baseball literature.

Players inducted

* Victor Starffin (1960) * Yutaka Ikeda (1962) * Haruyasu Nakajima (1963) * Tadashi Wakabayashi (1964) * Tetsuharu Kawakami (1965) * Tsunetaro Moriyama (1966) * Kazuto Tsuruoka (1969) * Shunichi Amachi (1970) * Nobuaki Nidegawa (1970) * Shuichi Ishimoto (1972) * Sadayoshi Fujimoto (1974) *

Fumio Fujimura was a Japanese baseball infielder and pitcher who played 22 seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) from 1936 to 1958. He began his career as a stellar right-handed pitcher for the Osaka Tigers, but achieved his greatest fame as a hitter. ...

(1974) *

Hideo Nakagami (also known as Hideo Nakagami) (May 10, 1918 – April 26, 1997) was a Japanese baseball pitcher. He holds the Japanese records for lowest career ERA (1.90) and seasonal ERA (0.73), as well as best all-time winning percentage (.697). During his ...

(1976) *

Shigeru Mizuhara is a former professional baseball infielder and manager in Japan's Japanese Baseball League (JBL) and Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). As a player his team won nine JBL championships; as a manager his teams won five Japan Series championship ...

(1977) *

Michio Nishizawa was a prominent Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball player who excelled as both a pitcher and a position player. Playing with the Chunichi Dragons franchise for most of his career, Nishizawa became one of Japan's most beloved athletes. His nu ...

(1977) *

Kenjiro Matsuki was a Japanese baseball first baseman and manager. He played for the Osaka/Hanshin Tigers from 1936 until 1941, when he was drafted into World War II. He returned as a player-manager, a role he possessed in 1940 and 1941, for 1950 and 1951. He se ...

(1978) *

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(1979) * Hiroshi Ohshita (1980) *

Makoto Kozuru Makoto Kozuru (Japanese:小鶴誠, ''Kozuro Makoto'', December 17, 1922 — June 2, 2003) was a Japanese professional baseball player who played in both the Japanese Baseball League and Nippon Professional Baseball. He was the MVP of the Central ...

(1980) *

Shigeru Chiba , known by the stage name , is a Japanese actor, voice actor, talent and sound director from Kikuchi, Kumamoto. He is affiliated with the talent management firm 81 Produce. He is most known for the roles of Yoshihiro Kira from '' JoJo's Bizarre ...

(1980) * Tokuji Iida (1981) * Yoshiyuki Iwamoto (1981) * Osamu Mihara (1983) * Shinji Kirihara (1984) * Shigeru Sugishita (1985) * Katsumi Shiraishi (1985) * Atsushi Aramaki (1985) *

Shigeo Nagashima is a Japanese former professional baseball player and manager. Biography Nagashima played baseball at his local high school, and on the Rikkyo University baseball team from 1954–1957. He joined the Yomiuri Giants in 1958. His jersey number ...

(1988) *

Kaoru Bettou was a Nippon Professional Baseball player. After playing for the Ōsaka Tigers for two years, Betto played for the Mainichi Orions from 1950 to 1957. In his first season with the Orions, Betto won the NPB's first Pacific League MVP Award and help ...

(1988) * Yukio Nishimoto (1988) *

Masaichi Kaneda was a Japanese professional baseball pitcher of Zainichi Korean origin, one of the best-known pitchers in Japanese baseball history, and is the only Japanese pitcher to have won 400 games. He was inducted in the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in ...

(1988) * Hidenosuke Shima (1989) *

Katsuya Nomura was a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) catcher and manager. During his over 26-season playing career mostly spent with the Nankai Hawks (now the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks), he became one of NPB's greatest offensive catchers. He was award ...

(1989) * Jiro Noguchi (1989) *

Juzo Sanada was a Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to ei ...

(1990) *

Isao Harimoto is a Korean former Nippon Professional Baseball player and holder of the record for most hits in the Japanese professional leagues. An ethnic Korean, his birth name is Jang Hun (Hangul: 장훈, Hanja: 張勳). Harimoto has spent his life as a resi ...

(1990) * Shigeru Makino (1991) * Osamu Tsutsui (1991) * Kichiro Shimaoka (1991) *

Tatsuro Hirooka Tatsuro Hirooka (広岡達朗, ''Hirooka Tatsurō'' born February 9, 1932) is a retired Japanese professional baseball player and manager. Hirooka played his entire career, from 1954 to 1966, for the Yomiuri Giants. He was awarded the Central L ...

(1992) * Michinori Tsubouchi (1992) * Yoshio Yoshida (1992) * Kazuhisa Inao (1993) *

Minoru Murayama was a professional baseball player for the Osaka Tigers (later Hanshin Tigers) in Nippon Professional Baseball. His number ''11'' is retired with the Tigers. A pitcher with Hanshin from 1959 to 1972, he recorded a career 2.09 ERA and 192 care ...

(1993) *

Sadaharu Oh Sadaharu Oh (Japanese: , ''Ō Sadaharu''; born May 20, 1940), also known as Wang Chen-chih (), is a Japanese-born former baseball player and manager Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Ō Sadaharu"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 758. who ...

(1994) * Wally Kaname Yonamine (1994) * Shosei Go (1995) — elected by the Special Committee *

Tadashi Sugiura was a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball player with the Nankai Hawks. He debuted in the 1958 and went on to join the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame for his skills as a pitcher. he won the Japanese Triple Crown in (1959) Early life Sugiura ...

(1995) * Tokichiro Ishii (1995) *

Motoshi Fujita was a Japanese professional baseball in Japan, professional baseball pitcher and manager. He spent his entire career with the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball, winning two Japan Series titles as a player and two more as manager. E ...

(1996) * Sachio Kinugasa (1996) * Katsuo Osugi (1997) * Futoshi Nakanishi (1999) * Yoshinori Hirose (1999) * Takeshi Koba (1999) * Sadao Kondo (1999) * Tetsuya Yoneda (2000) * Rikuo Nemoto (2001) * Masaaki Koyama (2001) * Kazuhiro Yamauchi (2002) *

Keishi Suzuki is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He played for the Kintetsu Buffaloes from 1966 to 1985.

(2002) * Yutaka Fukumoto (2002) * Kenjiro Tamiya (2002) * Toshiharu Ueda (2003) * Junzo Sekine (2003) * Akira Ogi (2004) * Noboru Akiyama (2004) * Choji Murata (2005) * Masaaki Mori (2005) * Masayori Shimura (2005) *

Hiromitsu Kadota was a Japanese professional baseball player for the Hawks franchise (known during his career as the Nankai Hawks and the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks) and the Orix Braves. Reputed for his slugging ability, he ate a lot and became a strong hitter, though ...

(2006) * Morimichi Takagi (2006) *

Hisashi Yamada is a retired Japanese professional baseball submarine pitcher. He played with the Hankyu Braves in Nippon Professional Baseball from to . Yamada won the Pacific League MVP for three years in a row (1976–1978), sharing a record with Ichiro S ...

(2006) *

Yasumitsu Toyoda was a Japanese professional baseball player and coach, who played as a shortstop. He played and coached for the Nishitetsu Lions and the Swallows franchise of Nippon Professional Baseball. In 1972, he coached the Kintetsu Buffaloes. Playing c ...

(2006) *

Takao Kajimoto was a left-handed Japanese baseball pitcher for the Hankyu Braves from 1954 to 1973. He won 254 games and was a 12-time All-Star during his career. He is a member of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame and Meikyukai. Career Kajimoto was signed b ...

(2007) * Reiichi Matsunaga (2007) * Koji Yamamoto (2008) * Tsuneo Horiuchi (2008) *

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(2009) * Seiichi Shima (2008) *

Osamu Higashio is a former Japanese baseball player who played in the Japanese professional leagues from 1969–1988, being remembered as one of the leading Japanese pitchers in the 1980s. He also was manager of the Seibu Lions from 1995 to 2001. Professiona ...

(2010) *

Hiromitsu Ochiai Hiromitsu Ochiai (落合博満 ''Ochiai Hiromitsu'', born December 9, 1953) is a Japanese professional baseball manager and former player. He is former manager of the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He is considered to ...

(2011) * Mutsuo Minagawa (2011) * Manabu Kitabeppu (2012) *

Tsunemi Tsuda was a Japanese baseball player of the Hiroshima Toyo Carp of Japan's Central League. He was one of the most famous Japanese right-handed pitchers. He was known as the because from his pitching style with the fastball. His nickname was "Tsune- ...

(2012) *

Yutaka Ohno , (born August 30, 1955) is a former Japanese baseball player of the Hiroshima Toyo Carp of Japan's Central League. He was one of the most famous Japanese left-handed pitchers. He was born in Izumo, Shimane. He was known as the man from . ...

(2013) *

Hideo Nomo is a Japanese former baseball pitcher who played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and Major League Baseball (MLB). He achieved early success in his native country, where he played with the Kintetsu Buffaloes from to . He then exploited a l ...

(2014) * Koji Akiyama (2014) *

Kazuhiro Sasaki Kazuhiro "Daimajin" Sasaki (佐々木主浩 ''Sasaki Kazuhiro'', born February 22, 1968) is a former Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher. He played his entire NPB career with the Yokohama Taiyo W ...

(2014) * Atsuya Furuta (2015) * Kihachi Enomoto (2016) * Kimiyasu Kudoh (2016) * Masaki Saito (2016) *

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(2017) * Masaji Hiramatsu (2017) *

Senichi Hoshino was a Nippon Professional Baseball player and manager. In 2003, he led the Hanshin Tigers to their first Central League pennant in 18 years before retiring for health reasons. In 2007, he managed the Japan national baseball team, Japanese natio ...

(2017) *

Hideki Matsui , nicknamed " Godzilla", is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder and designated hitter who played baseball in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and Major League Baseball (MLB). He batted left-handed and threw right-handed. Mats ...

(2018) *

Tomoaki Kanemoto is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder and manager. In his career as a player he spent 11 years with the Hiroshima Carp before moving to the Hanshin Tigers in 2003, where he spent another 10 years. He holds the world record for c ...

(2018) *

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(2019) * Hiroshi Gondoh (2019) * Koichi Tabuchi (2020) * Shingo Takatsu (2022) * Masa Yamamoto (2022)

Other inductees

* Matsutaro Shoriki (1959) * Hiroshi Hiraoka (1959) * Yukio Aoi (1959) * Shin Hashido (1959) * Kiyoshi Oshikawa (1959) * Jiro Kuji (1959) *

Eiji Sawamura Eiji Sawamura (沢村栄治; February 1, 1917 – December 2, 1944) was a Japanese professional baseball player. A right-handed pitcher, he played in Japan for the Yomiuri Giants. Early life On November 20, 1934, the 17-year-old Sawamura fa ...

(1959) * Iso Abe (1959) * Masaru Kageura (1965) *

Masaichi Nagata was a Japanese businessman and served as president of Daiei Film. The self-proclaimed creator of Gamera, he produced the kaiju's second film '' Gamera vs. Barugon'', with the remainder of the Showa ''Gamera'' films produced instead by his son H ...

(1988) * Saburo Yokozawa (1988) * Masao Yoshida (1992) *

Lefty O'Doul Francis Joseph "Lefty" O'Doul (March 4, 1897 – December 7, 1969) was an American Major League Baseball player who went on to become an extraordinarily successful manager in the minor leagues. He was also a vital figure in the establishmen ...

(2002) *

Shiki Masaoka , pen-name of Masaoka Noboru (正岡升), was a Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period Japan. Shiki is regarded as a major figure in the development of modern haiku poetry, credited with writing nearly 20,000 stanzas during ...

(2002) * Horace Wilson (2003) * Sakae Suzuka (2003) * Hiromori Kawashima (2006) * Shigeyoshi Matsumae (2022)

External links

Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
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Players inducted

Other inductees

See also

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