Player of the year » Japan
| Year | Player |
| 2024 | Yoshinori Mutō |
| 2023 | Yuya Ōsako |
| 2022 | Tomoki Iwata |
| 2021 | Leandro Damião |
| 2020 | Michael Olunga |
| 2019 | Teruhito Nakagawa |
| 2018 | Akihiro Ienaga |
| 2017 | Yū Kobayashi |
| 2016 | Kengo Nakamura |
| 2015 | Toshihiro Aoyama |
| 2014 | Yasuhito Endō |
| 2013 | Shunsuke Nakamura |
| 2012 | Hisato Satō |
| 2011 | Leandro Domingues |
| 2010 | Seigo Narazaki |
| 2009 | Mitsuo Ogasawara |
| 2008 | Marquinhos |
| 2007 | Robson Ponte |
| 2006 | Marcus Tulio Tanaka |
| 2005 | Araújo |
| 2004 | Yuji Nakazawa |
| 2003 | Emerson Sheik |
| 2002 | Naohiro Takahara |
| 2001 | Toshiya Fujita |
| 2000 | Shunsuke Nakamura |
| 1999 | Alex |
| 1998 | Masashi Nakayama |
| 1997 | Dunga |
| 1996 | Jorginho |
| 1995 | Dragan Stojković |
| 1994 | Pereira |
| 1993 | Kazuyoshi Miura |