2020 Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Election

The following were the candidates for the 2020 Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Election. Inductees are listed in bold. The players division had no one selected for the first time since its 2008 creation, with Shingo Takatsu falling 7 votes shy.

Players Division Ballot (266 of 354 votes needed)

• Masahiro Kawai - 218
• Shinji Sasaoka - 39
• Kenjiro Nomura - 127
• Masumi Kuwata - 121
• Tuffy Rhodes - 102
• Norihiro Akahoshi - 32
• Shingo Takatsu - 259
• So Taguchi - 34
• Hiroki Kokubo - 104
• Takuro Ishii - 87
• Kenji Johjima - 61
• Shinya Miyamoto - 206
• Alex Ramirez - 233
• Tomonori Maeda - 102
• Takeshi Yamasaki - 41
• Kazuhisa Ishii - 14
• Shinjiro Hiyama - 16
• Norihiro Nakamura - 28
• Akinori Iwamura - 4
• Makoto Kaneko - 3

Expert Division Ballot (102 of 135 votes needed)

• Keiji Osawa - 49
• Masayuki Dobashi - 27
• Randy Bass - 89
• Tokuji Nagaike - 37
• Koichi Tabuchi - 109
• Akinobu Okada - 16
• Kiyoshi Nakahata - 15
• Mitsuhiro Adachi - 21
• Isao Shibata - 40
• Hideji Kato - 28
• Hiromu Matsuoka - 12
• Masayuki Kakefu - 62
• Masataka Nashida - 17
• Shigeru Takada - 17
• Yoshinori Sato - 14
• Mitsuo Tatsukawa - 11

Special Commitee Ballot (11 of 14 needed)

• Tomoichi Tanimura - 4
• Yukichi Maeda - 12
• Renzo Ishii - 11
• Shinji Mizushima - 3
• Katsuji Kawashima - 7
• Makoto Ota - 0
• Hyotaro Kondo - 0
• Kazuo Sayama - 2
• Shigeyoshi Matsumae - 1
• Yuji Koseki - 2

Sources: Jim Allen's blog, Japanese Baseball Hall of fame