SOCCER PLAYER

Kazu Naoki

1918 - 1944

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Kazu Naoki (直木 和, Naoki Kazu, March 23, 1918 – 1940s) was a Japanese football player. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kazu Naoki has received more than 10,646 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 48 in 2019). Kazu Naoki is the 771st most popular soccer player (down from 696th in 2019), the 662nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 677th in 2019) and the 91st most popular Japanese Soccer Player.

Kazu Naoki is most famous for his manga series Barefoot Gen. The series is about the bombing of Hiroshima and its aftermath.

Memorability Metrics

  • 11k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 15.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Kazu Naokis by language

Over the past year Kazu Naoki has had the most page views in the with 1,319 views, followed by Japanese (782), and Estonian (753). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (109.63%), Swahili (107.91%), and Latvian (91.01%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Kazu Naoki ranks 771 out of 21,273. Before him are Frans Janssens, Emerich Jenei, Orlando Peçanha, Kenneth Zohore, Arnfinn Bergmann, and Antonio de la Cruz. After him are Demetrio Albertini, Marc-André ter Stegen, Stefan Effenberg, Josep Maria Fusté, Petar Nadoveza, and Shogo Kamo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Kazu Naoki ranks 102. Before him are Ajahn Chah, Ida Lupino, Lothar-Günther Buchheim, Lo Wei, Shankar Dayal Sharma, and Massimo Girotti. After him are Bebo Valdés, Ian Stevenson, Joseph Wiseman, Aldo van Eyck, Borys Paton, and Arthur Chung. Among people deceased in 1944, Kazu Naoki ranks 126. Before him are Takeo Takagi, Musa Cälil, Josef Bürckel, Adelbert Schulz, Paul von Hase, and Kaj Munk. After him are Arsen Kotsoyev, Lina Cavalieri, Hellmuth Stieff, Israel Joshua Singer, Heinz Brandt, and Kosta Pećanac.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kazu Naoki ranks 662 out of 6,245. Before him are Katsu Kaishū (1823), Hakaru Hashimoto (1881), Prince Kan'in Kotohito (1865), Wakatsuki Reijirō (1866), Takashi Miike (1960), and Shigenori Tōgō (1882). After him are Yoshitaka Amano (1952), Kazuyo Sejima (1956), Shogo Kamo (1915), Riyoko Ikeda (1947), Hōjō Ujimasa (1538), and Machiko Kyō (1924).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Japan

Among soccer players born in Japan, Kazu Naoki ranks 91. Before him are Nobuyuki Kato (1920), Tadao Takayama (1904), Koji Miyata (1923), Takashi Mizuno (1931), Yasuo Haruyama (1906), and Kiyoshi Tomizawa (1943). After him are Shogo Kamo (1915), Kazuhisa Kono (1950), Masanobu Izumi (1944), Yoshio Fujiwara (null), Kenzo Ohashi (1934), and Yoshinobu Ishii (1939).

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