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List of Nippon Professional Baseball career hits leaders

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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

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| Denotes elected to Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.

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| Denotes active player.{{efn|A player is considered inactive if he has announced his retirement or not played for a full season.}}

  • Stats updated as of end of 2023 season.

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! Rank

! Player

! Hits

1

| style="background:#ffffbb;" | Isao Harimoto *

| 3,085

2

| style="background:#ffffbb;" | Katsuya Nomura *

| 2,901

3

| style="background:#ffffbb;" | Sadaharu Oh *

| 2,786

4

| style="background:#ffffbb;" | Hiromitsu Kadota *

| 2,566

5

| style="background:#ffffbb;" | Yutaka Fukumoto *

| 2,543

5

| style="background:#ffffbb;" | Sachio Kinugasa *

| 2,543

7

| style="background:#ffffbb;" | Tomoaki Kanemoto *

| 2,539

8

| style="background:#ffffbb;" | Kazuyoshi Tatsunami *

| 2,480

9

| style="background:#ffffbb;" | Shigeo Nagashima *

| 2,471

10

| Masahiro Doi

| 2,452

11

| Takuro Ishii

| 2,432

12

| style="background:#ffffbb;" | Hiromitsu Ochiai *

| 2,371

13

| style="background:#ffffbb;" | Tetsuharu Kawakami *

| 2,351

14

| style="background:#ffffbb;" | Koji Yamamoto *

| 2,339

15

| style="background:#cfecec;" | Hayato Sakamoto

| 2,321

16

| style="background:#ffffbb;" | Kihachi Enomoto *

| 2,314

17

| style="background:#ffffbb;" | Morimichi Takagi *

| 2,274

18

| style="background:#ffffbb;" | Kazuhiro Yamauchi *

| 2,271

19

| style="background:#ffffbb;" | Katsuo Osugi *

| 2,228

20

| Yasunori Oshima

| 2,204

21

| Takahiro Arai

| 2,203

22

| Seiichi Uchikawa

| 2,186

23

| style="background:#ffffbb;" | Tsutomu Wakamatsu *

| 2,173

24

| Atsunori Inaba

| 2,167

25

| Yoshinori Hirose

| 2,157

25

| style="background:#ffffbb;" | 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

| style="background:#cfecec;" | 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

| style="background:#ffffbb;" | 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

| style="background:#ffffbb;" | 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

| style="background:#cfecec;" | Yohei Oshima

| 2,021

50

| Kenjiro Nomura

| 2,020

51

| Isao Shibata

| 2,018

52

| style="background:#ffffbb;" | Alex Ramírez *

| 2,017

53

| Yukio Tanaka

| 2,012

54

| Norihiro Komada

| 2,006

55

| Kazuya Fukuura

| 2,000

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See also

Notes

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References

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External links

  • [http://baseballguru.com/jalbright/careerb.htm Career Batting Data from Japanese Star Players]
  • [https://npb.jp/bis/history/ltb_h.html NPB Official Site (Japanese)]
  • [https://baseballguru.com/]

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