Editing Nippon Professional Baseball (section)

===Single season pitching===
{| class="wikitable" style="clear: left;"
|- style="text-align:center;" 
| colspan="3" style="background:#cfc;"|'''Central League'''
| colspan="3" style="background:#87cefa;"|'''Pacific League'''
| colspan="3"|'''Overall'''
|-
!|Player
!|
!|Year
!|Player
!|
!|Year
!|Player
!|
!|Year
|-
| colspan="9" style="text-align:center;"|'''ERA'''<!-- https://npb.jp/bis/history/ssp_era.html -->
|-
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Minoru Murayama]]
|0.98
|1970
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Kazuhisa Inao]]
|1.06
|1956
| style="background:#cfc;"|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Minoru Murayama]] <sup> '''d''' </sup>
|0.98
|1970
|-
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Minoru Murayama]]
|1.19
|1959
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Masahiro Tanaka]]
|1.272
|2011
| style="background:#87cefa;"|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Kazuhisa Inao]]
|1.06
|1956
|-
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Minoru Murayama]]
|1.20
|1962
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Masahiro Tanaka]]
|1.273
|2013
| style="background:#cfc;"|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Minoru Murayama]]
|1.19
|1959
|-
| colspan="9" style="text-align:center;"|'''Wins'''<!-- https://npb.jp/bis/history/ssp_w.html -->
|-
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Juzo Sanada]]
|39
|1950
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Kazuhisa Inao]] 
|42
|1961
| style="background:#87cefa;"|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Kazuhisa Inao]]  <sup>'''e''' </sup>
|42
|1961
|-
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Hiroshi Gondo]]
|35
|1961
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Tadashi Sugiura]]
|38
|1959
| style="background:#cfc;"|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Juzo Sanada]]
|39
|1950
|-
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Takehiko Bessho]]
|33
|1952
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Kazuhisa Inao]]
|35
|1957
| style="background:#87cefa;"|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Tadashi Sugiura]]
|38
|1959
|-
| colspan="9" style="text-align:center;"|'''Saves''' <!-- https://npb.jp/bis/history/ssp_sv.html -->
|-
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Hitoki Iwase]]
|46
|2005
|{{flagicon|USA}} [[Dennis Sarfate]]
|54
|2017
| style="background:#87cefa;"|{{flagicon|USA}} [[Dennis Sarfate]]
|54
|2017
|-
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Kyuji Fujikawa]]
|46
|2007
|{{flagicon|USA}} [[Dennis Sarfate]]
|43
|2016
| style="background:#cfc;"|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Hitoki Iwase]]
|46
|2005
|-
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Kazuhiro Sasaki]]
|45
|1998
|{{flagicon|USA}} [[Dennis Sarfate]]
|41
|2015
| style="background:#cfc;"|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Kyuji Fujikawa]]
|46
|2007
|-
| colspan="9" style="text-align:center;"|'''Strikeouts''' <!-- https://npb.jp/bis/history/ssp_so.html -->
|-
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Yutaka Enatsu]]
|401
|1968
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Kazuhisa Inao]]
|353
|1961
| style="background:#cfc;"|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Yutaka Enatsu]]
|401
|1968
|-
|{{flagicon|KOR}} [[Masaichi Kaneda]] <sup>'''f''' </sup>
|350
|1955
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Tadashi Sugiura]]
|336
|1959
| style="background:#87cefa;"|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Kazuhisa Inao]]
|353
|1961
|-
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Yutaka Enatsu]]
|340
|1970
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Kazuhisa Inao]]
|334
|1958
| style="background:#cfc;"|{{flagicon|KOR}} [[Masaichi Kaneda]]
|350
|1955
|}

<sup> '''d''' </sup> The Japanese record is 0.73, set by [[Hideo Fujimoto]] in the 1943 [[Japanese Baseball League]] season, which is also the world record ERA, surpassing Tim Keefe's 0.86 of the [[Troy Trojans (MLB team)|Troy Trojans]] in 1880.
<br />
<sup> '''e''' </sup> The Japanese record is shared between Inao and [[Victor Starffin]], who also recorded 42 wins during the 1942 [[Japanese Baseball League]] season.
<br />
<sup> '''f''' </sup> Despite being born in Japan, Kaneda did not become a Japanese citizen until 1959 and was instead a South Korean citizen.