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Kunishige Kamamoto

1944 - Today

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Kunishige Kamamoto (釜本 邦茂, Kamamoto Kunishige, born April 15, 1944) is a former Japanese football player, manager and politician. He won the bronze medal with the Japan national team at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, finishing as the tournament's top scorer with seven goals, and is the all-time leading goalscorer for Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kunishige Kamamoto has received more than 352,297 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Kunishige Kamamoto is the 125th most popular soccer player (down from 104th in 2019), the 134th most popular biography from Japan (down from 130th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Soccer Player.

Kunishige Kamamoto is most famous for his role in the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma.

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  • 60

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  • 6.29

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  • 3.88

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Kunishige Kamamoto ranks 125 out of 16,923. Before him are Kenny Dalglish, Hisataka Okamoto, Daniel Passarella, Miroslav Klose, Helmut Schön, and Sandro Mazzola. After him are Bert Trautmann, Luis Monti, Bobby Moore, Fabio Cannavaro, Jean-Marie Pfaff, and Dragan Džajić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Kunishige Kamamoto ranks 57. Before him are Bora Milutinović, Luigi Riva, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jonathan Demme, John Holmes, and John Rhys-Davies. After him are Udo Kier, Bernard Cornwell, Larry Ellison, Günter Netzer, R. Lee Ermey, and Bernhard Schlink.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kunishige Kamamoto ranks 134 out of 5,560. Before him are Shoichi Yokoi (1915), Emperor Kōrei (-341), Junichiro Koizumi (1942), Hisataka Okamoto (1933), Zeami Motokiyo (1363), and Yoichiro Nambu (1921). After him are Emperor Ōjin (210), Emperor Suinin (-69), Mikao Usui (1865), Okita Sōji (1842), Ken Watanabe (1959), and Taira no Kiyomori (1118).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Japan

Among soccer players born in Japan, Kunishige Kamamoto ranks 2. Before him are Hisataka Okamoto (1933). After him are Akira Kitaguchi (1935), Tsukasa Hosaka (1937), Takashi Kasahara (1918), Yasuo Takamori (1934), Yozo Aoki (1929), Yasukazu Tanaka (1933), Saizo Saito (1908), Hiroaki Sato (1932), Hirokazu Ninomiya (1917), and Kazu Naoki (1918).

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