List of Nippon Professional Baseball career hits leaders
Isao Harimoto holds the Japanese record for most career hits with 3085, and is the only player with more than 3000 hits in Japan.
Players with 2,000 or more hits
* | Denotes elected to Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. |
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Bold | Denotes active player.[a] |
- Stats updated as of end of 2023 season.
Rank | Player | Hits |
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1 | Isao Harimoto * | 3,085 |
2 | Katsuya Nomura * | 2,901 |
3 | Sadaharu Oh * | 2,786 |
4 | Hiromitsu Kadota * | 2,566 |
5 | Yutaka Fukumoto * | 2,543 |
5 | Sachio Kinugasa * | 2,543 |
7 | Tomoaki Kanemoto * | 2,539 |
8 | Kazuyoshi Tatsunami * | 2,480 |
9 | Shigeo Nagashima * | 2,471 |
10 | Masahiro Doi | 2,452 |
11 | Takuro Ishii | 2,432 |
12 | Hiromitsu Ochiai * | 2,371 |
13 | Tetsuharu Kawakami * | 2,351 |
14 | Koji Yamamoto * | 2,339 |
15 | Hayato Sakamoto | 2,321 |
16 | Kihachi Enomoto * | 2,314 |
17 | Morimichi Takagi * | 2,274 |
18 | Kazuhiro Yamauchi * | 2,271 |
19 | Katsuo Osugi * | 2,228 |
20 | Yasunori Oshima | 2,204 |
21 | Takahiro Arai | 2,203 |
22 | Seiichi Uchikawa | 2,186 |
23 | Tsutomu Wakamatsu * | 2,173 |
24 | Atsunori Inaba | 2,167 |
25 | Yoshinori Hirose | 2,157 |
25 | Koji Akiyama * | 2,157 |
27 | Shinya Miyamoto | 2,133 |
28 | Shinnosuke Abe | 2,132 |
29 | Kazuhiro Kiyohara | 2,122 |
30 | Michihiro Ogasawara | 2,120 |
30 | Takumi Kuriyama | 2,120 |
32 | Tomonori Maeda | 2,119 |
33 | Motonobu Tanishige | 2,108 |
34 | Norihiro Nakamura | 2,101 |
35 | Takashi Toritani | 2,099 |
36 | Atsuya Furuta * | 2,097 |
37 | Makoto Matsubara | 2,095 |
38 | Kazuo Matsui | 2,090 |
39 | Hiroyuki Yamazaki | 2,081 |
40 | Taira Fujita | 2,064 |
41 | Kenichi Yazawa | 2,062 |
42 | Michiyo Arito | 2,057 |
43 | Shinichi Eto * | 2,057 |
44 | Hideji Katō | 2,055 |
45 | Kazuhiro Wada | 2,050 |
46 | Masahiro Araki | 2,045 |
47 | Hiroki Kokubo | 2,041 |
48 | Hiromasa Arai | 2,038 |
49 | Yohei Oshima | 2,021 |
50 | Kenjiro Nomura | 2,020 |
51 | Isao Shibata | 2,018 |
52 | Alex Ramírez * | 2,017 |
53 | Yukio Tanaka | 2,012 |
54 | Norihiro Komada | 2,006 |
55 | Kazuya Fukuura | 2,000 |
See also
- List of Nippon Professional Baseball players with 1,000 runs batted in
- List of Nippon Professional Baseball earned run average champions
- Nippon Professional Baseball Most Valuable Player Award
- List of KBO Career Hits leaders
Notes
- ^ A player is considered inactive if he has announced his retirement or not played for a full season.
References
External links
- Career Batting Data from Japanese Star Players
- NPB Official Site (Japanese)
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