Toru Kamikawa
b. 1963
HPI 56.0226 languages
Japanese football referee
The Most Famous
Referees from Japan
4 notable people
Trending Referees from Japan This Week
The top 10 Referees from Japan trending on Wikipedia in the past 7 days, with a quick note on what drove the spike.
- #1
Yuichi Nishimura
b. 1972
Trending in Japanese (#131) Wikipedia (2,008 views, on Jul 21).
Top 4 Japanese Referees
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Japanese Referees of all time. This list of famous Japanese Referees is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
#1 #2 Yuichi Nishimura
b. 1972
HPI 53.6833 languagesJapanese football referee
#3 
Ryuji Sato
b. 1977
HPI 46.4624 languagesJapanese football referee
#4 
Yoshimi Yamashita
b. 1986
HPI 38.5219 languagesJapanese association football referee
Overlapping Lives
Which Referees were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 4 most globally memorable Referees since 1700.
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