List of top Nippon Professional Baseball home run hitters


This is a list of the top 40 Nippon Professional Baseball home run hitters. In the sport of baseball, a home run is a hit in which the batter scores by circling all the bases and reaching home plate in one play, without the benefit of a fielding error. This can be accomplished either by hitting the ball out of play while it is still in fair territory, or by an inside-the-park home run.
Sadaharu Oh holds the Nippon Professional Baseball home run record with 868. He passed Hank Aaron with 755, on September 3, 1977. The only other NPB player to have hit even 600 or more home runs is Katsuya Nomura with 657.
Slugger Noboru Aota retired in 1959 as the Japanese professional baseball career leader with 265 career homers. He was surpassed in 1963 by Kazuhiro Yamauchi, the first Japanese professional baseball player to hit 300 home runs. Sadaharu Oh assumed the top spot in 1968, later becoming the first NPB hitter to surpass 600 home runs during the 1974 season.
Listed are all Nippon Professional Baseball players with 300 or more home runs hit during official regular season. Players in bold face are active as of the 2018 Nippon Professional Baseball season.

List

Stats updated as of 2019 season.
RankPlayer HRYears
1Sadaharu Oh *8681959–1980
2Katsuya Nomura *6571954–1980
3Hiromitsu Kadota *5671970–1992
4Koji Yamamoto *5361969–1986
5Kazuhiro Kiyohara5251985–2008
6Hiromitsu Ochiai *5101979–1998
7Isao Harimoto *5041959–1981
Sachio Kinugasa *5041965–1987
9Katsuo Osugi *4861965–1983
10Tomoaki Kanemoto *4761992–2012
11Kōichi Tabuchi4741969–1984
12Masahiro Doi4651962–1981
13Tuffy Rhodes4641996–2005, 2007–2009
14Shigeo Nagashima *4441958–1974
15Koji Akiyama *4371981, 1984–2002
16Takeya Nakamura4152003–present
17Hiroki Kokubo4131994–2012
18Shinnosuke Abe4062001–2019
19Norihiro Nakamura4041992–2014
20Takeshi Yamasaki4031989–2013
21Kazuhiro Yamauchi *3961952–1970
22Tatsunori Hara3821981–1995
Yasunori Oshima3821971–1994
24Alex Ramírez3802001–2013
25Michihiro Ogasawara3781997–2015
26Shinichi Eto *3671959–1976
27Akira Eto3641990–2009
28Shuichi Murata3602003–2017
29Alex Cabrera3572001–2012
30Masayuki Kakefu3491974–1988
31Michiyo Arito3481969–1986
32Hideji Katō3471969–1987
33Tokuji Nagaike3381966–1979
Masaru Uno3381977–1994
35Hideki Matsui *3321993–2002
36Makoto Matsubara3311962–1981
37Kazuhiro Wada3191997–2015
Takahiro Arai3191999–2018
39Katsumi Hirosawa3061985–2003
40Takahiro Ikeyama3041984–2002