2016 Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Election

The following were the candidates for the 2016 Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Election. Inductees are listed in bold.

Players Division Ballot (253 of 337 votes needed)

• Hiromichi Ishige - 69
• Tsutomu Itoh - 172
• Genji Kaku - 56
• Masahiro Kawai - 76
• Masaaki Saito - 285
• Shinji Sasaoka - 26
• Yoshinori Sato - 103
• Kenjiro Nomura - 65
• Hiromi Matsunaga - 30
• Kazuhiro Kiyohara - 76
• Masumi Kuwata - 74
• Kazuyoshi Tatsunami - 171
• Tuffy Rhodes - 96
• Norihiro Akahoshi - 15
• Kimiyasu Kudoh - 258
• Shingo Takatsu - 99
• Kazumi Saitoh - 17
• Akihiro Yano - 9
• Koichi Hori - 6
• Makoto Kosaka - 4
• Keiichi Yabu - 4
• Naoyuki Omura - 2
• Arihito Muramatsu - 1

Expert Division Ballot (83 of 112 votes needed)

• Keiji Osawa - 39
• Hiroshi Gondo - 63
• Masayuki Dobashi - 27
• Atsushi Nagaike - 26
• Randy Bass - 40
• Masaji Hiramatsu - 70
• Kihachi Enomoto - 83
• Koichi Tabuchi - 27
• Senichi Hoshino - 69
• Akinobu Okada - 10
• Takao Ise - 2
• Akio Saito - 2
• Takashi Yamaguchi - 2

Special Commitee Ballot (11 of 14 needed)

• Haruo Wakimura - 3
• Masao Taki - 6
• Masatake Yamanaka - 12
• Makoto Ota - 0
• Isao Okada - 2
• Kiyoshi Sugiura - 0
• Takizo Matsumoto - 13
• Tomoichi Tanimura - 1
• Hiroshi Goshi - 3
• Mirei Suzuki - 1
• Toru Matsubara - 1

Source: yakyubaka.com