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Kunishige Kamamoto

1944 - Today

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Kunishige Kamamoto (釜本 邦茂, Kamamoto Kunishige, born 15 April 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. Kamamoto served as the Vice-President of the Japan Football Association from July 1998 to July 2008. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kunishige Kamamoto has received more than 505,702 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia. Kunishige Kamamoto is the 110th most popular soccer player (up from 116th in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from Japan (up from 137th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Soccer Player.

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

Memorability Metrics

  • 510k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 60

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Kunishige Kamamoto ranks 110 out of 21,273. Before him are Andriy Shevchenko, Matthias Sindelar, Cafu, Zito, Vahid Halilhodžić, and René Higuita. After him are Leônidas, Hiroto Muraoka, Didier Deschamps, Jorge Jesus, César Luis Menotti, and Berti Vogts.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Kunishige Kamamoto ranks 50. Before him are Harold Ramis, John Rhys-Davies, Ronnie Peterson, Abdul Latif Rashid, Nick Mason, and Gennady Zyuganov. After him are Sylvie Vartan, Omar al-Bashir, David J. Wineland, Nebahat Çehre, Jean-Pierre Léaud, and François Cevert.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kunishige Kamamoto ranks 104 out of 6,245. Before him are Akira Suzuki (1930), Paulo Miki (1564), Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835), Empress Meishō (1624), Sugawara no Michizane (845), and Joan Fontaine (1917). After him are Hiroto Muraoka (1931), Sei Shōnagon (966), Okita Sōji (1842), Emperor Go-Momozono (1758), Kenji Mizoguchi (1898), and Emperor Kōshō (-505).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Japan

Among soccer players born in Japan, Kunishige Kamamoto ranks 3. Before him are Koji Tanaka (1955), and Junji Nishikawa (1907). After him are Hiroto Muraoka (1931), Kakuichi Mimura (1931), Tameo Ide (1908), Kazuyoshi Miura (1967), Osamu Yamaji (1929), Hiroaki Sato (1932), Yozo Aoki (1929), Kenji Tochio (1941), and Ken Noritake (1922).

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