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Kenji Goto

1967 - 2015

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Kenji Goto (後藤 健二, Gotō Kenji, 23 October 1967 – c. 31 January 2015) was a Japanese freelance video journalist covering wars and conflicts, refugees, poverty, AIDS, and child education around the world. In October 2014, he was captured and held hostage by Islamic State (IS) militants after entering Syria in the hopes of rescuing Japanese hostage Haruna Yukawa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kenji Goto has received more than 612,727 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Kenji Goto is the 89th most popular journalist (down from 84th in 2019), the 1,347th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,321st in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Journalist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 610k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Kenji Goto ranks 89 out of 127Before him are Nuriye Ulviye Mevlan Civelek, Salima Ghezali, Jon Ola Sand, Diane Sawyer, Chingiz Mustafayev, and Joseph Ruttenberg. After him are James Foley, Vladimir Solovyov, Joseph Roffo, Sara Carbonero, Piers Morgan, and Frances Benjamin Johnston.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Kenji Goto ranks 260Before him are Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Marisa Monte, Quentin Meillassoux, Julio Dely Valdés, Mia Sara, and Ali Babacan. After him are Ardem Patapoutian, Chris Barnes, DJ Yella, Mille Petrozza, Gil Bellows, and Meg Cabot. Among people deceased in 2015, Kenji Goto ranks 354Before him are Héctor Salva, Karin Söder, Rico Rodriguez, R. K. Laxman, Dave Mackay, and Csaba Fenyvesi. After him are Coleen Gray, Dominique Dropsy, Ernst Larsen, Martin Litchfield West, Loris Campana, and Michael Blake.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kenji Goto ranks 1,347 out of 6,048Before him are Hiroyuki Takei (1972), Rie Kugimiya (1979), Chieko Homma (1964), Kimiko Shiratori (1968), Yūki Kaji (1985), and Nanako Matsushima (1973). After him are Junichi Inamoto (1979), Brian Tee (1977), Koto Matsudaira (1903), Yuichi Nakamura (1980), Shinobu Ikeda (1962), and Katsuyuki Konishi (1973).

Among JOURNALISTS In Japan

Among journalists born in Japan, Kenji Goto ranks 1After him are Kenji Nagai (1957).

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