The following is a list of Nippon Professional Baseball players who have reached the 1,000 run batted in (RBI) milestone. RBIs are usually accumulated in baseball by successfully allowing a runner on base to score as a result of making contact at-bat, although a batter is credited with an RBI if a run scores as a result of his reaching first base with the bases loaded as a result of either a base on balls (walk) or being hit by a pitch.

Sadaharu Oh holds the Nippon Professional Baseball RBI career record with 2,170.

The List *denotes elected to Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.Bolddenotes active player. Stats updated as of 2025. Quoted from the official Nippon Professional Baseball website.

RankPlayer (2017 RBIs)HRYears1 Sadaharu Oh *2,170 1959–19802 Katsuya Nomura *1,988 1954–19803 Hiromitsu Kadota *1,678 1970–19924 Isao Harimoto *1,676 1959–19815 Hiromitsu Ochiai *1,564 1979–19986Kazuhiro Kiyohara1,530 1985–20087 Shigeo Nagashima *1,522 1958–19748 Tomoaki Kanemoto1,521 1992–20129 Katsuo Osugi *1,507 1965–198310 Koji Yamamoto *1,475 1969–1986 11 Sachio Kinugasa *1,448 1965–198712 Masahiro Doi1,400 1962–198113 Takeya Nakamura1,366 2003-present14 Norihiro Nakamura1,338 1992–201415 Tetsuharu Kawakami *1,319 1938–195816 Koji Akiyama *1,312 1981, 1984–200217 Hiroki Kokubo1304 1994-201218 Takahiro Arai1,303 1999-201819 Kazuhiro Yamauchi * 1,286 1952–197020 Shinnosuke Abe1,2852001–2019 21 Alex Ramírez 1,272 2001–2013 22 Tuffy Rhodes1,269 1996–2005, 2007–2009 23 Hideji Katō 1,2681969–1987 24 Yasunori Oshima 1,234 1971–1994 25 Takeshi Yamasaki1,205 1989–2013 26 Shinichi Eto *1,1891959–1976 27 Makoto Matsubara1,1801962–1981 28 Michihiro Ogasawara1,1691997–2015 29 Nobuhiko Matsunaka1,168 1997–2015 30 Hideto Asamura1,166 2010-present 31 Kōichi Tabuchi1,135 1969–1984 32 Fumio Fujimura *1,126 1936–1958 33 Shuichi Murata1,123 2003-2017 34 Tomonori Maeda1,112 1990-2013 35 Tatsunori Hara 1,093 1981–1995 36Sho Nakata1,087 2007-2025 37 Kazuhiro Wada1,0811997-2015 38 Kosuke Fukudome1,0781999-2022 39 Hayato Sakamoto1,065 2007-present 40 Michiyo Arito1,0611969–1986

See also

List of Major League Baseball career runs batted in leaders List of top Nippon Professional Baseball home run hitters List of Nippon Professional Baseball career hits leaders

Notes

References

External links Career Batting Data from Japanese Star Players, BaseballGuru.com