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.
Bold Denotes active player.[a]
Rank Player Hits
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
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 Kihachi Enomoto * 2,314
16 Morimichi Takagi * 2,274
17 Kazuhiro Yamauchi * 2,271
18 Katsuo Osugi * 2,228
19 Hayato Sakamoto 2,205
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
Koji Akiyama * 2,157
27 Shinya Miyamoto 2,133
28 Shinnosuke Abe 2,132
29 Kazuhiro Kiyohara 2,122
30 Michihiro Ogasawara 2,120
31 Tomonori Maeda 2,119
32 Motonobu Tanishige 2,108
33 Norihiro Nakamura 2,101
34 Takashi Toritani 2,099
35 Atsuya Furuta * 2,097
36 Makoto Matsubara 2,095
37 Kazuo Matsui 2,090
38 Takumi Kuriyama 2,086
39 Hiroyuki Yamazaki 2,081
40 Taira Fujita 2,064
41 Kenichi Yazawa 2,062
42 Michiyo Arito 2,057
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 Kenjiro Nomura 2,020
50 Isao Shibata 2,018
51 Alex Ramírez * 2,017
52 Yukio Tanaka 2,012
53 Norihiro Komada 2,006
54 Kazuya Fukuura 2,000

See also

Notes

  1. ^ A player is considered inactive if he has announced his retirement or not played for a full season.

References

External links

Nippon Professional Baseball (2023)
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