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Masatoshi Nakayama

1913 - 1987

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Masatoshi Nakayama (中山 正敏, Nakayama Masatoshi, April 13, 1913 – April 15, 1987)[a] was an internationally famous Japanese master of Shotokan karate. He helped establish the Japan Karate Association (JKA) in 1949, and wrote many textbooks on karate, which served to popularize his martial art. For almost 40 years, until his death in 1987, Nakayama worked to spread Shotokan karate around the world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Masatoshi Nakayama has received more than 161,321 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Masatoshi Nakayama is the 17th most popular martial arts (down from 12th in 2019), the 638th most popular biography from Japan (down from 571st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Martial Arts.

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Among MARTIAL ARTS

Among martial arts, Masatoshi Nakayama ranks 17 out of 179. Before him are Ankō Itosu, Kenwa Mabuni, Conor McGregor, Andy Hug, Chōjun Miyagi, and Hélio Gracie. After him are Fedor Emelianenko, Higaonna Kanryō, Cynthia Rothrock, Hironori Ōtsuka, Billy Blanks, and Motobu Chōki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Masatoshi Nakayama ranks 109. Before him are Gustaaf Deloor, Waldemar de Brito, Otto Wichterle, Nikolai Amosov, Hélio Gracie, and Bill Hewlett. After him are Peko Dapčević, Victor Mature, Osvaldo Moles, Mickey Cohen, Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, and Henri Eberhardt. Among people deceased in 1987, Masatoshi Nakayama ranks 82. Before him are Herbert Blumer, Otto Wöhler, Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover, Salim Ali, Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu, and Asim Ferhatović. After him are Yasuo Haruyama, Anatoli Papanov, Lorne Greene, J. P. Guilford, Konstantinos Tsatsos, and Alfred Bester.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masatoshi Nakayama ranks 638 out of 6,245. Before him are Giant Baba (1938), Monkey Punch (1937), Masashi Kishimoto (1974), Takashi Mizuno (1931), Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu (1905), and Yoshida Kenkō (1283). After him are Itagaki Taisuke (1837), Sen Katayama (1859), Ogata Kōrin (1658), Satoshi Tajiri (1965), Yasuo Haruyama (1906), and Masaharu Homma (1888).

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Among MARTIAL ARTS In Japan

Among martial arts born in Japan, Masatoshi Nakayama ranks 7. Before him are Kanō Jigorō (1860), Gichin Funakoshi (1868), Morihei Ueshiba (1883), Ankō Itosu (1831), Kenwa Mabuni (1889), and Chōjun Miyagi (1888). After him are Higaonna Kanryō (1853), Hironori Ōtsuka (1892), Motobu Chōki (1870), Koichi Tohei (1920), Matsumura Sōkon (1809), and Shoji Nishio (1927).

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