2022 Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Election

The following were the candidates for the 2022 Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Election. Inductees are listed in bold. The players division ballot had two inductees after having none the prior two years.

Players Division Ballot (271 of 361 votes needed)

• Masahiro Kawai - 183
• Shinji Sasaoka - 13
• Kenjiro Nomura - 68
• Masumi Kuwata - 82
• Tuffy Rhodes - 56
• Norihiro Akahoshi - 19
• Shingo Takatsu - 311
• So Taguchi - 13
• Hiroki Kokubo - 36
• Takuro Ishii - 29
• Kenji Johjima - 27
• Shinya Miyamoto - 159
• Alex Ramirez - 209
• Tomonori Maeda - 37
• Takeshi Yamasaki - 20
• Masahiro Yamamoto - 307
• Motonobu Tanishige - 167
• Nobuhiko Matsunaka - 46
• Michihiro Ogasawara - 27
• Atsunori Inaba - 52
• Yoshinobu Takahashi - 14
• Kazuhiro Wada - 10
• Yoshitomo Tani - 5
• Hiroki Kuroda - 165
• Daisuke Miura - 7

Expert Division Ballot (110 of 146 votes needed)

• Keiji Osawa - 57
• Masayuki Dobashi - 28
• Randy Bass - 106
• Tokuji Nagaike - 58
• Kiyoshi Nakahata - 8
• Isao Shibata - 49
• Hideji Kato - 33
• Hiromu Matsuoka - 11
• Masayuki Kakefu - 86
• Masataka Nashida - 21
• Shigeru Takada - 9
• Yoshinori Sato - 11
• Mitsuo Tatsukawa - 6
• Boomer Wells - 37
• Yasunori Oshima - 44
• Kenichi Yazawa - 33
• Michiyo Arito - 28
• Taira Fujita - 6
• Mitsuhiro Adachi - 24
• Akinobu Okada - 14
• Hiromi Makihara - 11
• Nobuhiro Takashiro - 9
• Hiromasa Arai - 32
• Yutaka Wada - 3

Special Commitee Ballot (9 of 14 needed)

• Tomoichi Tanimura - 6
• Makoto Ota - 2
• Shigeyoshi Matsumae - 9
• Yuji Koseki - 8
• Katsunari Miyai - 4
• Yamato Kyushi - 2
• Toshi Kaneko - 1
• Tadashi Bito - 0
• Saburo Saito - 0
• Ryutaro Takahashi - 0

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