2023 Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Election

The following were the candidates for the 2023 Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Election. Inductees are listed in bold. Both players elected were not Japanese-born; they were the first foreign players elected since Wally Yonamine 29 years earlier.

Players Division Ballot (267 of 355 votes needed)

• Masahiro Kawai - 217
• Shinji Sasaoka - 18
• Kenjiro Nomura - 80
• Masumi Kuwata - 100
• Karl Rhodes - 71
• Norihiro Akahoshi - 22
• So Taguchi - 14
• Hiroki Kokubo - 32
• Takuro Ishii - 49
• Kenji Johjima - 33
• Shinya Miyamoto - 192
• Alex Ramirez - 290
• Tomonori Maeda - 36
• Motonobu Tanishige - 253
• Nobuhiko Matsunaka - 75
• Michihiro Ogasawara - 38
• Atsunori Inaba - 63
• Yoshinobu Takahashi - 16
• Hiroki Kuroda - 245
• Hisashi Takeda - 3
• Tadahito Iguchi - 59
• Yasuyuki Kataoka - 1
• Shuichi Murata - 0

Expert Division Ballot (116 of 154 votes needed)

• Keiji Osawa - 58
• Masayuki Dobashi - 21
• Randy Bass - 121
• Tokuji Nagaike - 71
• Isao Shibata - 42
• Hideji Kato - 30
• Hiromu Matsuoka - 10
• Masayuki Kakefu - 102
• Masataka Nashida - 21
• Yoshinori Sato - 13
• Boomer Wells - 40
• Yasunori Oshima - 42
• Kenichi Yazawa - 34
• Michiyo Arito - 16
• Mitsuhiro Adachi - 15
• Hiromi Makihara - 6
• Hiromasa Arai - 27
• Hideki Kuriyama - 24
• Sohachi Aniya - 40

Special Division Ballot (10 of 14 votes needed)

• Tomoichi Tanimura - 9
• Yuji Koseki - 10
• Katsunari Miyai - 2
• Toshi Kaneko - 1
• Hiroya Tomizawa - 8
• Yoshinobu Suzuki - 4
• Kyushi Yamato - 4
• Masashi Akamine - 0
• 伊東 卓夫 - 0
• 横井 春野 - 0

Source: Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame