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Mika Yamamoto

1967 - 2012

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Mika Yamamoto (山本 美香, Yamamoto Mika) (26 May 1967 – 20 August 2012) was an award-winning Japanese video and photojournalist for the news agency Japan Press. Yamamoto was killed on 20 August 2012 while covering the ongoing Syrian Civil War in Aleppo, Syria. She was the first Japanese and fourth foreign journalist killed in the Syrian Civil War that began in March 2011. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mika Yamamoto has received more than 70,110 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Mika Yamamoto is the 157th most popular journalist, the 2,329th most popular biography from Japan and the 5th most popular Japanese Journalist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 70k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 35.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Mika Yamamoto ranks 157 out of 196. Before her are Brent Renaud, Irina Slavina, Nazlı Tolga, Yury Dud, Vicky Ntetema, and Evan Gershkovich. After her are Frances Bean Cobain, Timur Miroshnychenko, Roxana Saberi, Larry Kudlow, Janet Maslin, and Tim Russert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Mika Yamamoto ranks 724. Before her are Zheng Haixia, Jens Lehmann, Arnaldo Mesa, Masanaga Kageyama, Derrick Coleman, and Niels van der Zwan. After her are Lionel Plumenail, Hiroaki Matsuyama, Daichi Suzuki, Anna Biryukova, Irene Bedard, and Antonio Pettigrew. Among people deceased in 2012, Mika Yamamoto ranks 509. Before her are John Ingle, Alex Alves, Mary Tamm, Erik Rhodes, Vigor Bovolenta, and Arnaldo Mesa. After her are Johnny Lewis, Leslie Carter, Miki Roqué, Hollie Stevens, Samia Yusuf Omar, and Ajmal Kasab.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Mika Yamamoto ranks 2,329 out of 6,245. Before her are Makoto Sunakawa (1977), Hiro Mizushima (1984), Masahiko Inoha (1985), Yasuhiro Hato (1976), Kazuhito Mochizuki (1957), and Rila Fukushima (1989). After her are Kanata Hongō (1990), Yuko Araki (1993), Yuji Tsukada (1957), Keiichiro Nuno (1960), Daisuke Ichikawa (1980), and Yui Hasegawa (1997).

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Among JOURNALISTS In Japan

Among journalists born in Japan, Mika Yamamoto ranks 5. Before her are Kanno Sugako (1881), Kenji Goto (1967), Tsuneko Sasamoto (1914), and Kenji Nagai (1957).

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