2021 Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Election

The following were the candidates for the 2021 Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Election. Inductees are listed in bold. The players division had no one selected for the second year in a row.

Players Division Ballot (269 of 358 votes needed)

• Masahiro Kawai - 208
• Shinji Sasaoka - 20
• Kenjiro Nomura - 88
• Masumi Kuwata - 91
• Tuffy Rhodes - 61
• Norihiro Akahoshi - 22
• Shingo Takatsu - 259
• So Taguchi - 20
• Hiroki Kokubo - 65
• Takuro Ishii - 46
• Kenji Johjima - 44
• Shinya Miyamoto - 180
• Alex Ramirez - 233
• Tomonori Maeda - 57
• Takeshi Yamasaki - 25
• Kazuhisa Ishii - 5
• Shinjiro Hiyama - 6
• Norihiro Nakamura - 4
• Masahiro Yamamoto - 244
• Motonobu Tanishige - 138
• Nobuhiko Matsunaka - 61
• Michihiro Ogasawara - 56
• Atsunori Inaba - 28
• Yoshinobu Takahashi - 23
• Kazuhiro Wada - 16
• Yoshitomo Tani - 11
• Hirokazu Ibata - 10
• Fumiya Nishiguchi - 8
• Takashi Saito - 7

Expert Division Ballot (101 of 134 votes needed)

• Keiji Osawa - 49
• Masayuki Dobashi - 31
• Randy Bass - 95
• Tokuji Nagaike - 41
• Kiyoshi Nakahata - 13
• Isao Shibata - 32
• Hideji Kato - 20
• Hiromu Matsuoka - 6
• Masayuki Kakefu - 73
• Masataka Nashida - 18
• Shigeru Takada - 16
• Yoshinori Sato - 11
• Mitsuo Tatsukawa - 9
• Boomer Wells - 30
• Yasunori Oshima - 29
• Kenichi Yazawa - 26
• Michiyo Arito - 24
• Taira Fujita - 5

Special Commitee Ballot (11 of 14 needed)

• Katsuji Kawashima - 13
• Kazuo Sayama - 13
• Other people getting votes had 5, 5, 4, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0

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