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Masae Kasai

1933 - 2013

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Masae Kasai (河西 昌枝 Kasai Masae, 14 July 1933 – 3 October 2013) was a volleyball player from Japan, who was a member of the Japan Women's National Team, Oriental Witches, that won the gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Masae Kasai was born in Minami-Alps, Yamanashi, and started playing volleyball when the sport was still played with nine players a side in Japan (six are used internationally). She joined the Nichibo fiber spinning company right out of high school, first playing for corporation's Ashikaga (Tochigi) team, later for the one from Kaizuka (Osaka). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Masae Kasai has received more than 21,597 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Masae Kasai is the 7th most popular volleyball player (up from 8th in 2019), the 1,248th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,270th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Volleyball Player.

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  • 45.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS

Among volleyball players, Masae Kasai ranks 7 out of 121. Before her are Bernardo Rezende, Vyacheslav Zaytsev, Lang Ping, Giba, Karch Kiraly, and Josef Musil. After her are Vladimir Alekno, Yuri Chesnokov, Yekaterina Gamova, Andrea Anastasi, Slobodan Kovač, and Yuriy Poyarkov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Masae Kasai ranks 356. Before her are Hiroshi Suzuki, Levente Lengyel, Ela Bhatt, Muhamed Mujić, Celso Torrelio, and Stan Brakhage. After her are Françoise Héritier, Marlene Ahrens, Robert Goulet, Tim Conway, Judah Folkman, and Pedro Cubilla. Among people deceased in 2013, Masae Kasai ranks 336. Before her are Hartmut Briesenick, Bert Stern, Trevor Bolder, Walter Jens, Holger Juul Hansen, and Manna Dey. After her are Ersilio Tonini, Gerard Cieślik, Jan Zwartkruis, Judit Temes, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and Lucyna Winnicka.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masae Kasai ranks 1,248 out of 6,048. Before her are Sachiko Hidari (1930), Bunzō Hayata (1874), Yukito Kishiro (1967), Wataru Takagi (1966), Mazie Hirono (1947), and Masaharu Fukuyama (1969). After her are George W. Casey Jr. (1948), Yuji Kishioku (1954), Kuniya Daini (1944), Yukio Edano (1964), Kazuo Imanishi (1941), and Ken Akamatsu (1968).

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Among VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS In Japan

Among volleyball players born in Japan, Masae Kasai ranks 1. After her are Takako Shirai (1952), Saori Kimura (1986), Yoshie Takeshita (1978), and Erika Araki (1984).

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