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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 10,260 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 51 in 2019). Kazu Naoki is the 697th most popular soccer player (down from 160th in 2019), the 679th most popular biography from Japan (down from 177th in 2019) and the 105th 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

  • 10k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Kazu Naoki ranks 697 out of 16,880. Before him are Viliam Schrojf, Bodo Illgner, Attilio Demaría, Danilo Popivoda, Bill Foulkes, and Yasuo Haruyama. After him are Hennes Weisweiler, Robert Enke, Nani, Alfredo Foni, Waldo Machado, and Santiago Cañizares.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Kazu Naoki ranks 117. Before him are Massimo Girotti, David Ausubel, Bobby Riggs, Adolfo Pedernera, Ted Williams, and Aldo van Eyck. After him are George Lincoln Rockwell, René de Obaldia, Marie Smith Jones, Teresa Wright, James Aldridge, and Antonín Mrkos. Among people deceased in 1944, Kazu Naoki ranks 133. Before him are Lupe Vélez, Thomas Midgley Jr., Takeo Takagi, Franz Kutschera, Abdurreshid Ibrahim, and Paul Hazard. After him are Motobu Chōki, Mineichi Koga, J. Walter Christie, Paul von Hase, Adelbert Schulz, and Dadasaheb Phalke.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kazu Naoki ranks 679 out of 6,048. Before him are Shigeko Higashikuni (1925), Yuki Fushimi (1950), Soga no Umako (551), Ii Naosuke (1815), Yasuo Haruyama (1906), and Hiroshi Teshigahara (1927). After him are Ueda Akinari (1734), Motobu Chōki (1870), Yoshitaka Amano (1952), Hōnen (1133), Nagakura Shinpachi (1839), and Harukichi Hyakutake (1888).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Japan

Among soccer players born in Japan, Kazu Naoki ranks 105. Before him are Kikuzo Kisaka (null), Shigeru Takahashi (null), Tomohiko Ikoma (1932), Eizo Yuguchi (1945), Yuki Fushimi (1950), and Yasuo Haruyama (1906). After him are Noritaka Hidaka (1947), Yoshinobu Ishii (1939), Akira Nishino (1955), Hiroshi Saeki (1936), Koji Funamoto (1942), and Yoshio Fujiwara (null).

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