1944 - Today
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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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.
1951 - Present
HPI: 70.67
Rank: 119
1933 - Present
HPI: 70.66
Rank: 120
1953 - Present
HPI: 70.66
Rank: 121
1978 - Present
HPI: 70.63
Rank: 122
1915 - 1996
HPI: 70.63
Rank: 123
1942 - Present
HPI: 70.62
Rank: 124
1944 - Present
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 125
1923 - 2013
HPI: 70.60
Rank: 126
1901 - 1983
HPI: 70.60
Rank: 127
1941 - 1993
HPI: 70.59
Rank: 128
1973 - Present
HPI: 70.58
Rank: 129
1953 - Present
HPI: 70.53
Rank: 130
1946 - Present
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 131
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.
1944 - Present
HPI: 70.76
Rank: 51
1944 - Present
HPI: 70.76
Rank: 52
1944 - Present
HPI: 70.71
Rank: 53
1944 - 2017
HPI: 70.70
Rank: 54
1944 - 1988
HPI: 70.70
Rank: 55
1944 - Present
HPI: 70.69
Rank: 56
1944 - Present
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 57
1944 - Present
HPI: 70.57
Rank: 58
1944 - Present
HPI: 70.47
Rank: 59
1944 - Present
HPI: 70.47
Rank: 60
1944 - Present
HPI: 70.46
Rank: 61
1944 - 2018
HPI: 70.37
Rank: 62
1944 - Present
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 63
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).
1915 - 1997
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 128
341 BC - 214 BC
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 129
1942 - Present
HPI: 70.66
Rank: 130
1933 - Present
HPI: 70.66
Rank: 131
1363 - 1443
HPI: 70.65
Rank: 132
1921 - 2015
HPI: 70.62
Rank: 133
1944 - Present
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 134
210 - 310
HPI: 70.59
Rank: 135
69 BC - 70
HPI: 70.58
Rank: 136
1865 - 1926
HPI: 70.55
Rank: 137
1842 - 1868
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 138
1959 - Present
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 139
1118 - 1181
HPI: 70.51
Rank: 140
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).
1933 - Present
HPI: 70.66
Rank: 1
1944 - Present
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 2
1935 - Present
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 3
1937 - 2018
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 4
1918 - Present
HPI: 70.21
Rank: 5
1934 - 2016
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 6
1929 - 2014
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 7
1933 - Present
HPI: 70.12
Rank: 8
1908 - 2004
HPI: 70.08
Rank: 9
1932 - 1988
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 10
1917 - 2000
HPI: 69.96
Rank: 11
1918 - 1944
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 12