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{{About|the Japanese professional baseball hall of fame|baseball hall of fame organizations in other countries|Baseball Hall of Fame (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox museum
| name            = Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
| native_name     = 野球殿堂<!--Yakyū Dendō-->
| native_name_lang = jp
| image           = Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum 20070317.jpg
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| coordinates     = {{coord|35.705658|139.751914|display=inline}}
| established     = [[1959 in sports#Baseball|1959]]
| dissolved       = 
| location        = [[Tokyo Dome]], [[Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan]]
| type            = [[Professional sports]] [[hall of fame]]
| visitors        = 
| director        = Norio Ichino
| curator         = 
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| website         = {{URL|https://baseball-museum.or.jp}} {{in lang|ja}}
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The {{nihongo|'''Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum'''|野球体育博物館|Yakyū Taiiku Hakubutsukan}}, commonly known outside of Japan as the '''Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame,''' is a [[hall of fame]] and [[museum]] in [[Tokyo]] dedicated to [[professional baseball]], with a prominent focus on [[Professional baseball in Japan|professional baseball in Japan]]. The Hall is intended to honor and commemorate inducted players, executives, umpires, and other individuals who developed and/or made a significant impact towards the sport of baseball in Japan.

Established in 1959, the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame was originally located next door to [[Korakuen Stadium]], then-home for the [[Tokyo Giants]] and [[Kokutetsu Swallows]] of the [[Central League]] and the [[Mainichi Orions]] of the [[Pacific League]]. Following the closure of Korakuen Stadium in 1988, the Hall moved to its current location within the [[Tokyo Dome]], the stadium built as Korakuen's successor and the Giants' subsequent home.  

Individuals are primarily inducted as members of the Japanese Baseball Hall after gaining at least 75% of votes on a ballot of players or expert voters. The Hall's special committee is also able to elect and induct other individuals deemed to have a notable connection to the sport, such as composer [[Yuji Koseki]], who was inducted in 2023 for his creation of the [[Hanshin Tigers]] cheer song "Rokko Oroshi."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2023/01/78fcf3b15f0f-urgent-sluggers-ramirez-bass-to-enter-japans-baseball-hall-of-fame.html | title=Sluggers Alex Ramirez, Randy Bass to enter Japan's Baseball Hall of Fame |work=Kyodo News|date=Jan 13, 2023}}</ref>  

==The museum==
[[File:Tokyo_Dome-3a.jpg|thumb|left|260px|Inside the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame]]
The Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame's museum depicts numerous artifacts and moments from Japanese baseball history, ranging from uniforms of each team, that has played in the Central and Pacific Leagues, in addition to American baseball memorabilia, such as that of [[Ken Griffey Jr.]] and [[Babe Ruth]]. The uniform of [[Sadaharu Oh]] alongside the home run bats and balls in his career (most notably the bat for home run #800) are also on display.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sportscollectorsdigest.com/.amp/news/japanese-baseball-hall-of-fame|title=Japanese Baseball HOF has American ties|work=Sports Collectors Digest|first=Matt |last=Bosch|date=Jan 30, 2020}}</ref>

== List of members ==
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*[[Victor Starffin]] (1960)
*[[Yutaka Ikeda]] (1962)
*[[Haruyasu Nakajima]] (1963)
*[[Tadashi Wakabayashi]] (1964)
*[[Tetsuharu Kawakami]] (1965)
*[[Tsunetaro Moriyama]] (1966)
*[[Kazuto Tsuruoka]] (1969)
*[[Shunichi Amachi]] (1970)
*[[Nobuaki Nidegawa]] (1970)
*[[Shuichi Ishimoto]] (1972)
*[[Sadayoshi Fujimoto]] (1974)
*[[Fumio Fujimura]] (1974)
*[[Hideo Nakagami]] (1976)
*[[Shigeru Mizuhara]] (1977)
*[[Michio Nishizawa]] (1977)
*[[Kenjiro Matsuki]] (1978)
*[[Shinji Hamazaki]] (1978)
*[[Takehiko Bessho]] (1979)
*[[Hiroshi Ohshita]] (1980)
*[[Makoto Kozuru]] (1980)
*[[Shigeru Chiba (baseball)|Shigeru Chiba]] (1980)
*[[Tokuji Iida]] (1981)
*[[Yoshiyuki Iwamoto]] (1981)
*[[Osamu Mihara]] (1983)
*[[Shinji Kirihara]] (1984)
*[[Shigeru Sugishita]] (1985)
*[[Katsumi Shiraishi]] (1985)
*[[Atsushi Aramaki]] (1985)
*[[Takeo Akuta]] (1988)
*[[Shigeo Nagashima]] (1988)
*[[Kaoru Bettou]] (1988)
*[[Yukio Nishimoto]] (1988)
*[[Masaichi Kaneda]] (1988)
*[[Hidenosuke Shima]] (1989)
*[[Katsuya Nomura]] (1989)
*[[Jiro Noguchi]] (1989)
*[[Juzo Sanada]] (1990)
*[[Isao Harimoto]] (1990)
*[[Shigeru Makino]] (1991)
*[[Osamu Tsutsui]] (1991)
*[[Kichiro Shimaoka]] (1991)
*[[Tatsuro Hirooka]] (1992)
*[[Michinori Tsubouchi]] (1992)
*[[Yoshio Yoshida (baseball)|Yoshio Yoshida]] (1992)
*[[Kazuhisa Inao]] (1993)
*[[Minoru Murayama]] (1993)
*[[Sadaharu Oh]] (1994)
*[[Wally Kaname Yonamine]] (1994)
* [[Shosei Go]] (1995) — elected by the Special Committee
*[[Tadashi Sugiura]] (1995)
*[[Tokichiro Ishii]] (1995)
*[[Motoshi Fujita]] (1996)
*[[Sachio Kinugasa]] (1996)
*[[Katsuo Osugi]] (1997)
*[[Futoshi Nakanishi]] (1999)
*[[Yoshinori Hirose]] (1999)
*[[Takeshi Koba]] (1999)
*[[Sadao Kondo]] (1999)
*[[Tetsuya Yoneda]] (2000)
*[[Rikuo Nemoto]] (2001)
*[[Masaaki Koyama]] (2001)
*[[Kazuhiro Yamauchi]] (2002)
*[[Keishi Suzuki]] (2002)
*[[Yutaka Fukumoto]] (2002)
*[[Kenjiro Tamiya]] (2002)
*[[Toshiharu Ueda]] (2003)
*[[Junzo Sekine]] (2003)
*[[Akira Ogi]] (2004)
*[[Noboru Akiyama]] (2004)
*[[Choji Murata]] (2005)
*[[Masaaki Mori (baseball)|Masaaki Mori]] (2005)
*[[Masayori Shimura]] (2005)
*[[Hiromitsu Kadota]] (2006)
*[[Morimichi Takagi]] (2006)
*[[Hisashi Yamada]] (2006)
*[[Yasumitsu Toyoda]] (2006)
*[[Takao Kajimoto]] (2007)
*[[Reiichi Matsunaga]] (2007)
*[[Koji Yamamoto (baseball, born 1946)|Koji Yamamoto]] (2008)
*[[Tsuneo Horiuchi]] (2008)
*[[Tsutomu Wakamatsu]] (2009)
*[[Seiichi Shima]] (2008)
*[[Osamu Higashio]] (2010)
*[[Hiromitsu Ochiai]] (2011)
*[[Mutsuo Minagawa]] (2011)
*[[Manabu Kitabeppu]] (2012)
*[[Tsunemi Tsuda]] (2012)
*[[Yutaka Ohno]] (2013)
*[[Hideo Nomo]] (2014)
*[[Koji Akiyama]] (2014)
*[[Kazuhiro Sasaki]] (2014)
*[[Atsuya Furuta]] (2015)
*[[Kihachi Enomoto]] (2016)
*[[Kimiyasu Kudoh]] (2016)
*[[Masaki Saito (baseball)|Masaki Saito]] (2016)
*[[Tsutomu Ito]] (2017)
*[[Masaji Hiramatsu]] (2017)
*[[Senichi Hoshino]] (2017)
*[[Hideki Matsui]] (2018)
*[[Tomoaki Kanemoto]] (2018)
*[[Kazuyoshi Tatsunami]] (2019)
*[[Hiroshi Gondoh]] (2019)
*[[Koichi Tabuchi]] (2020)
*[[Shingo Takatsu]] (2022)
*[[Masahiro Yamamoto (baseball)|Masa Yamamoto]] (2022)
*[[Alex Ramírez]] (2023)
*[[Randy Bass]] (2023)
*[[Ichiro Suzuki]] (2025)
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== More inductees ==
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*[[Matsutaro Shoriki]] (1959)
*[[Hiroshi Hiraoka]] (1959)
*[[Yukio Aoi]] (1959)
*[[Shin Hashido]] (1959)
*[[Kiyoshi Oshikawa]] (1959)
*[[Jiro Kuji]] (1959)
*[[Eiji Sawamura]] (1959)
*[[Iso Abe]] (1959)
*[[Masaru Kageura]] (1965)
*[[Masaichi Nagata]] (1988)
* [[Saburo Yokozawa]] (1988)
*[[Masao Yoshida (baseball)|Masao Yoshida]] (1992)
*[[Lefty O'Doul]] (2002)
*[[Shiki Masaoka]] (2002)
*[[Horace Wilson (professor)|Horace Wilson]] (2003)
*[[Sakae Suzuka]] (2003)
*[[Hiromori Kawashima]] (2006)
*[[Kazuo Sayama]] (2021)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://sabr.org/latest/sabr-member-kazuo-sayama-elected-to-japanese-baseball-hall-of-fame/ | title=SABR member Kazuo Sayama elected to Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame – Society for American Baseball Research }}</ref>
*[[Katsuji Kawashima]] (2021)
*[[Shigeyoshi Matsumae]] (2022)
*[[Yūji Koseki]] (2023)
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== Gallery ==
<gallery>
File:Ohtani Fighters NPB display.jpg|alt=Shohei Ohtani NPB display at the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame|A collection of [[Shohei Ohtani|Shohei Ohtani's]] memorabilia and equipment from his time with the [[Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters]] in the [[Nippon Professional Baseball|NPB]].
File:Babe Ruth Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame bat.jpg|Bat used by [[Babe Ruth]] held by the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.
File:Tanaka Yankees Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.jpg|[[Masahiro Tanaka]] autographed [[New York Yankees]] jersey and cap held by the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.
</gallery>
==See also==
{{Portal|Baseball|Japan}}
*[[Meikyukai|The Meikyukai]] ("Association of Great Players" or "Golden Players Club") (also a Japanese baseball hall of fame)
*[[Nisei Baseball Research Project]]
*[[Professional baseball in Japan]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://english.baseball-museum.or.jp/index.html Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum]
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