2017 Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Election

The following were the candidates for the 2017 Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Election. Inductees are listed in bold.

Players Division Ballot (250 of 333 votes needed)

• Tsutomu Itoh - 265
• Masahiro Kawai - 133
• Shinji Sasaoka - 51
• Yoshinori Sato - 155
• Kenjiro Nomura -132
• Hiromi Matsunaga - 38
• Masumi Kuwata - 114
• Kazuyoshi Tatsunami - 217
• Tuffy Rhodes - 122
• Norihiro Akahoshi - 29
• Shingo Takatsu - 158
• Kazumi Saitoh - 18
• So Taguchi - 65
• Masahide Kobayashi - 9
• Kiyoshi Toyoda - 2
• Takahiro Saeki - 1

Expert Division Ballot (84 of 112 votes needed)

• Keiji Osawa - 26
• Hiroshi Gondo - 59
• Masayuki Dobashi - 30
• Randy Bass - 40
• Masaji Hiramatsu - 84
• Tokuji Nagaike - 15
• Koichi Tabuchi - 29
• Senichi Hoshino - 88
• Akinobu Okada - 9
• Tatsunori Hara - 62
• Hiromasa Arai - 11
• Kiyoshi Nakahata - 11
• Genji Kaku - 5
• Daisuke Yamashita - 3

Special Commitee Ballot (11 of 14 needed)

• Haruo Wakimura - 7
• Masao Taki - 4
• Isao Okada - 2
• Tomoichi Tanimura - 2
• Hiroshi Goshi - 12
• Mirei Suzuki - 12
• Toru Matsubara - 0
• Junji Kanda - 1
• Yukichi Maeda - 1
• Renzo Ishii - 0

Source: yakyudb.com