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WRITER

Hirokazu Kanazawa

1931 - 2019

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Hirokazu Kanazawa (金澤 弘和, Kanazawa Hirokazu, 3 May 1931 – 8 December 2019) was a Japanese master of Shotokan karate. He was the Chief instructor and President of the Shotokan Karate-Do International Federation, an organisation he founded after he left the Japan Karate Association (JKA). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hirokazu Kanazawa has received more than 208,835 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Hirokazu Kanazawa is the 1,875th most popular writer (down from 1,697th in 2019), the 543rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 490th in 2019) and the 37th most popular Japanese Writer.

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  • 210k

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  • 55.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hirokazu Kanazawa ranks 1,875 out of 5,755. Before him are Luis de León, Lydia Koidula, Vasile Alecsandri, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Oliver Goldsmith, and Jacint Verdaguer. After him are Mukaghali Makatayev, Ruan Ji, Ibn al-Farid, Jón Arason, John Tzetzes, and John of Ruusbroec.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Hirokazu Kanazawa ranks 121. Before him are Masaaki Hatsumi, Juan Goytisolo, Hiroto Muraoka, Claire Bloom, Silvia Pinal, and Pierre Nora. After him are Mukaghali Makatayev, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Leslie Caron, Alfred Schmidt, Barbara Bain, and Magali Noël. Among people deceased in 2019, Hirokazu Kanazawa ranks 107. Before him are Peter Mayhew, Billy Drago, Anatoly Lukyanov, Jonas Mekas, Moshe Arens, and Guillermo Mordillo. After him are Dawda Jawara, Georgiy Daneliya, Branko Lustig, Monkey Punch, Gershon Kingsley, and Yukiya Amano.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hirokazu Kanazawa ranks 543 out of 6,048. Before him are Mako (1933), Tokugawa Ieharu (1737), Mariya Takeuchi (1955), Tatsuya Shiji (1938), Toshio Suzuki (1948), and Shinran (1173). After him are Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu (1905), Masanobu Izumi (1944), Masao Ono (1923), Sessue Hayakawa (1886), Gunichi Mikawa (1888), and Shigeo Sugimoto (1926).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Hirokazu Kanazawa ranks 37. Before him are Ono no Komachi (825), Ryū Murakami (1952), Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653), Minamoto no Sanetomo (1192), Masaoka Shiki (1867), and Akiyuki Nosaka (1930). After him are Junji Ito (1963), Atsushi Nakajima (1909), Eiji Tsuburaya (1901), Doppo Kunikida (1871), Yoshida Kenkō (1283), and Fujiwara no Teika (1162).

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