2018 Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Election

The following were the candidates for the 2018 Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Election. Inductees are listed in bold.

Players Division Ballot (276 of 368 votes needed)

• Hideki Matsui - 336
• Tomoaki Kanemoto - 278
• Masahiro Kawai - 132
• Shinji Sasaoka - 35
• Yoshinori Sato - 140
• Kenjiro Nomura - 105
• Masumi Kuwata - 78
• Kazuyoshi Tatsunami - 242
• Tuffy Rhodes - 84
• Norihiro Akahoshi - 20
• Shingo Takatsu - 169
• Kazumi Saitoh - 10
• So Taguchi - 29
• Hiroki Kokubo - 80
• Takuro Ishii - 71
• Kenji Johjima - 52
• Alex Cabrera - 10

Expert Division Ballot (92 of 122 votes needed)

• Keiji Osawa - 29
• Hiroshi Gondo - 80
• Masayuki Dobashi - 27
• Randy Bass - 57
• Tokuji Nagaike - 24
• Koichi Tabuchi - 30
• Akinobu Okada - 12
• Tatsunori Hara - 96
• Hiromasa Arai - 10
• Kiyoshi Nakahata - 11
• Mitsuhiro Adachi - 28
• Hideji Kato - 28
• Hiromu Matsuoka - 16

Special Commitee Ballot (11 of 14 needed)

• Haruo Wakimura - 9
• Masao Taki - 13
• Isao Okada - 5
• Tomoichi Tanimura - 3
• Toru Matsubara - 0
• Junji Kanda - 0
• Yukichi Maeda - 3
• Renzo Ishii - 3
• Shinji Mizushima - 3
• Hiroya Tomizawa - 0

Source: yakyudb.com