Meiji University

Based in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Meiji University is part of the Tokyo Big Six University League. It is generally one of the strongest powers in Japanese collegiate baseball and is a major rival of Waseda University.

Notable Alumni

• Masahiro Abe, Japanese national team catcher
• Noboru Akiyama, NPB pitcher and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Shunichi Amachi, NPB manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Shinobu Ando, NPB manager
• Nobuhisa Arai, Japanese national team coach
• Kiyoshi Doi, NPB catcher and manager
• Hideo Fujimoto, NPB pitcher and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Shuhei Fukuda, NPB outfielder
• Yoshihiro Furukawa, Japanese national team catcher
• Hideo Furuya, Japanese national team pitcher
• Yoshio Gomi, NPB infielder
• Hiroshi Goshi, amateur umpire; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Kogo Goto, Japanese national team coach
• Kunio Hata, Japanese national team outfielder
• Giichi Hayashi, NPB pitcher and manager
• Kasuhisa Hino, Japanese national team infielder
• Saburo Hirai, NPB infielder
• Katsuo Hirata, NPB infielder
• Katsuhiro Hiratsuka, NPB outfielder
• Katsumi Hirosawa, NPB outfielder
• Hirokazu Horizoe, Japanese national team outfielder
• Senichi Hoshino, NPB pitcher and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Yasuhiro Ichiba, NPB pitcher
• Shuhei Ichieda, NPB infielder
• Hidetoshi Ikeda, NPB pitcher
• Toshiharu Inokawa, NPB catcher-infielder and manager
• Hiromu Ise, NPB pitcher
• Masayoshi Ishida, NPB infielder
• Shun Ishikawa, NPB infielder
• Kozo Ishioka, NPB pitcher
• Kento Itohara, NPB infielder
• Nobukazu Iwamoto, NPB pitcher
• Yoshiyuki Iwamoto, NPB outfielder and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Yuji Iwamoto, Japanese national team infielder
• Yasuhiro Iwaoka, NPB infielder
• Shinji Iwata, NPB pitcher
• Daichi Kaino, NPB infielder
• Satoshi Kashibuchi, Japanese national team outfielder
• Yoshitaka Katori, NPB pitcher
• Kenshin Kawakami, pitcher
• Toshio Kawanishi, NPB outfielder and infielder
• Katsuya Kawashima, Japanese national team infielder
• Satoshi Kikuchi, Japanese national team pitcher
• Atsushi Kizuka, NPB pitcher
• Riichi Kodama, NPB infielder
• Kazuhiko Kondo, NPB infielder
• Tokuro Konishi, NPB manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Saburo Kosaka, NPB infielder
• Katsuhiko Kumazaki, NPB commissioner
• Koichi Kume, Japanese national team coach
• Yasuhiro Mae, Japanese national team pitcher
• Shingo Maeda, NPB infielder
• Shigeru Makino, NPB infielder; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Naoki Matoba, NPB catcher
• Kaichi Masu, NPB outfielder and manager
• Kenjiro Matsuki, NPB infielder and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Kosaburo Matsumoto, NPB catcher
• Takizo Matsumoto, politician; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Kosuke Matsuoka, NPB infielder
• Takashi Miwa, NPB catcher
• Kentaro Miyazawa, Japanese national team infielder
• Yoshio Mizuno, Japanese national team infielder
• Masato Morishita, NPB pitcher
• Toshio Murai, Japanese national team pitcher
• Shigeo Murakami, NPB outfielder
• Yutaka Nakamura, NPB outfielder
• Susumu Nakane, NPB outfielder and umpire
• Fujio Nakazawa, announcer and executive; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Nobuaki Nidegawa, NPB umpire; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Kazuki Nishijima, minor league pitcher
• Hiroshi Nishimura, Japanese national team manager
• Osamu Nogami, Japanese national team infielder
• Akira Noguchi, NPB pitcher-infielder and manager
• Katsunori Nomura, NPB catcher
• Yusuke Nomura, NPB pitcher
• Takashi Ogasawara, NPB pitcher
• Genzaburo Okada, NPB catcher and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Atsushi Okamoto, NPB pitcher
• Terutoshi Okiyama, NPB outfielder
• Shigeyuki Onodera, Japanese national team outfielder
• Mitsuo Oomori, NPB and minor league catcher
• Hiroshi Oshita, NPB outfielder and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Shigeki Saito, Japanese national team infielder
• Hiroyuki Sakaguchi, Japanese national team outfielder
• Seishiro Sakamoto, NPB catcher
• Keita Sano, NPB outfielder
• Hiromi Seki, Japanese national team outfielder
• Ryota Sekiya, NPB pitcher
• Seiichi Shima, amateur star; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Kichiro Shimaoka, college coach; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Hiroaki Shimauchi, NPB outfielder
• Hideo Shimizu, NPB pitcher
• Masayori Shimura, writer; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Tsuyoshi Sugano, NPB outfielder
• Kazukiyo Sugimoto, Japanese national team pitcher
• Shigeru Sugishita, NPB pitcher and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Kiyoshi Sugiura, NPB infielder and manager
• Taira Sumitomo, NPB infielder
• Yosuke Sunazuka, Japanese national team infielder
• Kazuhiko Suzuki, Japanese national team infielder
• Takeo Tabe, amateur infielder; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Shigeru Takada, NPB outfielder and manager
• Ryoma Takamatsu, Japanese national team outfielder
• Kazuhiro Takeda, NPB pitcher
• Tsutomu Takeda, college president; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Ryutaro Tsuji, NPB outfielder
• Tetsuya Tsuji, NPB infielder
• So Tsutsui, NPB infielder
• Shigetoshi Yamada, Japanese national team coach
• Yuki Yamauchi, Japanese national team catcher
• Sachiya Yamasaki, NPB pitcher
• Zenpei Yamazaki, NPB outfielder
• Yuya Yanagi, NPB pitcher
• Yuichi Yanagisawa, NPB catcher
• Seiko Yasuoka, Japanese national team infielder
• Saburo Yokozawa, NPB infielder, manager and umpire; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Masao Yoshida, amateur star; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Mitatsuya Yoshina, Japanese national team coach
• Yoshio Yuasa, NPB player and manager

Coaches

• Genzaburo Okada, 1923
• Umejiro Ito, 1924
• Genzaburo Okada, 1925-1935
• Umeo Yazawa, 1936-1941
• Kiyoshi Sugiura, 1941
• Minoru Ota, 1942
• Umeo Yazawa, 1946
• Yutaka Yasogawa, 1946-1947
• Tatsuo Miyasaka, 1948-1950
• Yutaka Yasogawa, 1951
• Kichiro Shimaoka, 1952-1961
• Ryutaro Matsuda, 1961
• Takehisa Kurisaki, 1962-1964
• Kichiro Shimaoka, 1965-1978
• Takeshi Mitsuzawa, 1978
• Hirofumi Ohtani, 1979
• Kichiro Shimaoka, 1980-1988
• Takahiko Beppu, 1989-1995
• Nobuhisa Arai, 1996-2001
• Shigeki Saito, 2002-2003
• Keita Kawaguchi, 2004-2008
• Mitatsuya Yoshina, 2008-2019
• Takehiro Tanaka, 2020-

Assistant Coaches

• Kazuki Nishijima