Waseda University

A member of the Tokyo Big Six University League, Waseda University is one of the major powers of Japanese collegiate baseball. Their primary rival is the Meiji University club. They won the All-Japan University Baseball Championship in 2007 behind freshman pitcher Yuki Saito. Isoo Abe organized the school's first baseball team in 1901 and remained active with the baseball program through 1925 at least. The school is in Shinjuku, Tokyo.

In the spring of 1905, they became the first foreign team to tour the United States, playing a total of 26 games in Western states.

Notable Alumni

• Masafumi Abe, Japanese national team pitcher
• Osamu Adachi, Japanese national team infielder
• Choichi Aida, college coach; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Ikuhara Akihiro, MLB executive; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Ippei Akiyoshi, Japanese national team infielder
• Takeo Akuta, NPB manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Motohiro Ando, NPB pitcher
• Norichika Aoki, outfielder
• Hiroshi Arakawa, NPB outfielder and manager
• Kiwamu Arakawa, Japanese national team infielder
• Takashi Arakawa, NPB infielder
• Kohei Arihara, pitcher
• Masao Date, amateur player; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Akira Ejiri, NPB outfielder and manager
• Shintaro Ejiri, NPB pitcher
• Chuujiro Endo, NPB pitcher
• Shugo Fujii, NPB pitcher
• Sadayoshi Fujimoto, NPB manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Katsuyuki Fukumoto, Japanese national team outfielder
• Yuya Fukui, NPB pitcher
• Kazuo Fukushima, amateur pitcher; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Michihiro Hagiwara, Japanese national team outfielder
• Shin Hashido, amateur executive; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Takahisa Hayakawa, NPB pitcher
• Kazuo Hayashi, amateur executive; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Masato Hayashida, Japanese national team outfielder
• Tatsuro Hirooka, NPB infielder and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Takeshi Hosoyamada, NPB catcher
• Kuo-Cheng Hsieh, executive; Taiwan Baseball Hall of Fame
• Tadao Ichioka, NPB executive; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Osamu Ida, Japanese national team outfielder
• Tsuneo Ikeda, writer; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Yutaka Ikeda, NPB manager and umpire; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Shinjiro Iguchi, amateur player; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Hiroo Ishii, NPB infielder
• Renzo Ishii, college coach; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Tokichiro Ishii, college coach; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Kenichi Ishiyama, Japanese national team manager
• Yasuhiro Itami, college coach; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Toshio Ito, NPB outfielder
• Tsugio Iwata, NPB infielder
• Yuki Jibiki, Japanese national team infielder
• Kazuo Kageyama, NPB infielder and manager
• Takumi Kajisha, Japanese national team coach
• Eiji Kanamori, NPB outfielder
• Hiroshi Kanazawa, Japanese national team pitcher
• Akio Kanemitsu, NPB catcher/infielder
• Yuya Kamada, NPB pitcher
• Masaki Kato, NPB outfielder
• Tamotsu Kimura, NPB pitcher
• Kenji Kitazaki, Japanese national team infielder
• Fumio Kitsugi, NPB infielder
• Takato Kobayashi, Japanese national team catcher
• Hirotami Kojima, Japanese national team outfielder and manager
• Toshio Kojima, NPB infielder
• Satoru Komiyama, pitcher
• Akihito Kondo, NPB infielder and manager
• Ryonosuke Konishi, Japanese national team infielder
• Atsushi Kono, NPB owner; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Toshihiko Kosaka, NPB pitcher
• Jiro Kuji, amateur catcher; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Yoshihiro Maekawa, Japanese national team outfielder
• Masashi Maruyama, Japanese national team infielder
• Keijiro Matsumoto, NPB outfielder
• Tadashi Matsumoto, NPB outfielder
• Masatoshi Matsuoka, NPB infielder
• Osamu Mihara, NPB infielder and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Yuko Minamimura, NPB outfielder
• Tsutomu Minowa, Japanese national team infielder
• Koichi Misawa, NPB pitcher
• Katsutoshi Miwata, NPB pitcher
• Minoru Miyahara, Japanese national team catcher
• Yasuyuki Miyazaki, Japanese national team infielder
• Yoshiro Miyazaki, Japanese national team outfielder
• Eiji Mizuguchi, NPB infielder
• Eigoro Mogi, NPB infielder
• Shigeo Mori, NPB pinch-hitter and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Toru Mori, NPB outfielder
• Yoshimoto Mukaida, Japanese national team pitcher
• Haruyasu Nakajima, NPB infielder/outfielder and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Hiromichi Nakamura, NPB umpire
• Katsuhiro Nakamura, NPB infielder and manager
• Shogo Nakamura, NPB infielder
• Ekuo Nakaya, Japanese national team infielder
• Kaoru Nimura, NPB outfielder
• Toshihisa Nishi, NPB infielder
• Toru Nishida, NPB infielder
• Susumu Obuchi, Japanese national team infielder
• Daisuke Ochi, NPB pitcher
• Yoshihito Oda, NPB infielder
• Kunikazu Ogawa, NPB and minor league pitcher
• Shotaro Ogawa, writer; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Tomohisa Ohtani, NPB pitcher
• Tatsuya Oishi, NPB pitcher
• Akinobu Okada, NPB infielder and manager
• Fukuyoshi Okada, NPB infielder
• Motoi Okoshi, NPB outfielder
• Junya Orita, NPB pitcher
• Kiro Osafune, NPB executive; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Kiyoshi Oshikawa, NPB executive; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Atsuyoshi Otake, college coach
• Kotaro Otake, NPB pitcher
• Yasuo Otsuka, NPB catcher
• Tatsuo Saeki, high school official; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Yuki Saito, NPB pitcher
• Toshiaki Sakai, Japanese national team catcher
• Katsutoshi Satake, Japanese national team pitcher
• Kimihiro Sato, Japanese national team infielder
• Kiyoshi Sato, college coach
• Toyo Sawa, NPB manager
• Kota Suda, NPB pitcher
• Naoki Takahashi, NPB pitcher
• Yuhei Takanashi, NPB pitcher
• Aiichi Takeuchi, NPB pitcher and manager
• Shinichi Takeuchi, NPB infielder
• Masatsugu Takiguchi, Japanese national team pitcher
• Munehide Tanabe, stadium executive; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Hiroyasu Tanaka, NPB infielder
• Katsuo Tanaka, college coach; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Nobuki Tanaka, Japanese national team infielder
• Junichi Tanii, Japanese national team pitcher
• Goro Taniguchi, college pitching star; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Chujun Tobita, college coach; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Mojuro Tonooka, college coach; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Takashi Toritani, NPB infielder
• Tsuyoshi Wada, NPB and MLB pitcher
• Min-Che Wu, college star; Taiwan Baseball Hall of Fame
• Soroku Yagisawa, NPB pitcher and manager
• Kazuhiro Yamakura, NPB catcher
• Kazunori Yamamoto, NPB pitcher
• Go Yamaoka, Japanese national team catcher
• Hiroshi Yamauchi, owner
• Yosei Yano, Japanese national team infielder
• Takeshi Yasuda, NPB pitcher
• Kenichi Yazawa, NPB outfielder
• Kentaro Yoshinaga, Japanese national team pitcher

Coaches

• Chujun Tobita, 1920-1925
• Tadao Ichioka, 1926-1930
• Tsunekuchi Oshita, 1931-1933
• Katsuo Tanaka, 1937-1939
• Yasuhiro Itami, 1940-1942
• Choichi Aida, 1946-1947
• Shigeo Mori, 1948-1957
• Renzo Ishii, 1958-1963
• Tokichiro Ishii, 1964-1973
• Kenichi Ishiyama, 1974-1978
• Yasuyuki Miyazaki, 1979-1984
• Osamu Ida, 1985-1987
• Renzo Ishii, 1988-1994
• Kiyoshi Sato, 1995-1998
• Toru Nomura, 1999-2004
• Atsuyoshi Otake, 2005-2010
• Takeshi Okamura, 2011-2014
• Hiroshi Takahashi, 2015-2018
• Satoru Komiyama, 2019-