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.
| * | denotes elected to Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. |
|---|---|
| Bold | denotes active player. [note 1] |
Stats updated as of April 16, 2018.
| Rank | Player (2017 RBIs) | HR | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sadaharu Oh * | 2,170 | 1959–1980 |
| 2 | Katsuya Nomura * | 1,988 | 1954–1980 |
| 3 | Hiromitsu Kadota * | 1,678 | 1970–1992 |
| 4 | Isao Harimoto * | 1,676 | 1959–1981 |
| 5 | Hiromitsu Ochiai * | 1,564 | 1979–1998 |
| 6 | Kazuhiro Kiyohara | 1,530 | 1985–2008 |
| 7 | Shigeo Nagashima * | 1,522 | 1958–1974 |
| 8 | Tomoaki Kanemoto | 1,521 | 1992–2012 |
| 9 | Katsuo Osugi * | 1,507 | 1965–1983 |
| 10 | Koji Yamamoto * | 1,475 | 1969–1986 |
| 11 | Sachio Kinugasa * | 1,448 | 1965–1987 |
| 12 | Masahiro Doi | 1,400 | 1962–1981 |
| 13 | Norihiro Nakamura | 1,338 | 1992–2014 |
| 14 | Tetsuharu Kawakami * | 1,319 | 1938–1958 |
| 15 | Koji Akiyama * | 1,312 | 1981, 1984–2002 |
| 16 | Tuffy Rhodes | 1,292 | 1996–2005, 2007–2009 |
| 17 | Kazuhiro Yamauchi * | 1,286 | 1952–1970 |
| 18 | Takahiro Arai (0) | 1,279 | 1999-present |
| 19 | Alex Cabrera | 1,272 | 2001–2012 |
| Alex Ramírez | 1,272 | 2001–2013 | |
| 21 | Hideji Katō | 1,268 | 1969–1987 |
| 22 | Yasunori Oshima | 1,234 | 1971–1994 |
| 23 | Shinnosuke Abe (2) | 1,214 | 2001–present |
| 24 | Takeshi Yamasaki | 1,205 | 1989–2013 |
| 25 | Shinichi Eto * | 1,189 | 1959–1976 |
| 26 | Makoto Matsubara | 1,180 | 1962–1981 |
| 27 | Michihiro Ogasawara | 1,169 | 1997–2015 |
| 28 | Kōichi Tabuchi | 1,135 | 1969–1984 |
| Fumio Fujimura * | 1,135 | 1936–1958 | |
| 30 | Shuichi Murata | 1,123 | 2003-2017 |
| 31 | Tatsunori Hara | 1,093 | 1981–1995 |
| 32 | Michiyo Arito | 1,061 | 1969–1986 |
| 33 | Noboru Aota | 1,034 | 1942–1959 |
| 34 | Akira Eto | 1,020 | 1990–2009 |
| 35 | Masayuki Kakefu | 1,019 | 1974–1988 |
| 36 | Atsuya Furuta * | 1,009 | 1990–2007 |
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