# Nippon Professional Baseball career home run leaders: top 20

Sadaharu Oh's 868 career home runs are still the all-time record in Japanese professional baseball, ahead of Katsuya Nomura (657) and Hiromitsu Kadota (567). The top 20 career home run hitters according to NPB's all-time records (end of the 2026 season).

- 21 votes · 20 items
- Oct 12, 2026 · baseball_hiroshima
- https://even.best/en/l/5265/nippon-professional-baseball-career-home-run-leaders-top-20

## Top 20

1. **Katsuo Osugi** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 486 career home runs.
2. **Sadaharu Oh** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 868 career home runs.
3. **Hiromitsu Kadota** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 567 career home runs.
4. **Tomoaki Kanemoto** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 476 career home runs.
5. **Shigeo Nagashima** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 444 career home runs.
6. **Katsuya Nomura** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 657 career home runs.
7. **Koji Yamamoto** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 536 career home runs.
8. **Kazuhiro Kiyohara** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 525 career home runs.
9. **Hiromitsu Ochiai** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 510 career home runs.
10. **Isao Harimoto** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 504 career home runs.
11. **Koichi Tabuchi** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 474 career home runs.
12. **Takeshi Yamasaki** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 403 career home runs.
13. **Sachio Kinugasa** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 504 career home runs.
14. **Takeya Nakamura** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 482 career home runs.
15. **Masahiro Doi** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 465 career home runs.
16. **Tuffy Rhodes** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 464 career home runs.
17. **Shinnosuke Abe** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 406 career home runs.
18. **Norihiro Nakamura** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 404 career home runs.
19. **Koji Akiyama** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 437 career home runs.
20. **Hiroki Kokubo** (-2 · ▲0 ▼2) — 413 career home runs.

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