To provide a negative electrode material, a manufacturing method and a nonaqueous secondary battery using the negative electrode material of a low specific surface area restrained from a pore structural change even if grinding a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon material in sufficiently fine diameters.

In the negative electrode material formed of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon obtained by thermally reacting a raw material mainly composed of pitch, the average grain size of the material is 10 μm or less, the element ratio of hydrogen/carbon is in a range of 0.50 to 0.05, the specific surface area by a BET method is in a range of 0.1 to 50 m2/g, and the amount of pores in a range of 20 to 50 in a BJH method is 1×10-3 cc/g or less.