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Toru Kamikawa

1963 - Today

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Toru Kamikawa (上川徹, Kamikawa Tōru, born June 8, 1963) is a former Japanese football (soccer) referee, debuting in Japan's professional J. League in 1996. Kamikawa was born in Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Toru Kamikawa has received more than 28,590 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Toru Kamikawa is the 43rd most popular referee (up from 53rd in 2019), the 1,487th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,621st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Referee.

Memorability Metrics

  • 29k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among REFEREES

Among referees, Toru Kamikawa ranks 43 out of 147Before him are Jorge Larrionda, Pierluigi Pairetto, Stéphanie Frappart, Kim Milton Nielsen, Olegário Benquerença, and Alireza Faghani. After him are Urs Meier, Wolfgang Stark, Manuel Mejuto González, Graham Poll, Clément Turpin, and Luis Medina Cantalejo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Toru Kamikawa ranks 387Before him are Laura Flores, Mark McGwire, Oleh Kuznetsov, Slobodan Dubajić, Zhu Jianhua, and Mikhail Yefremov. After him are Chris Mullin, Scott Ian, Yelena Baturina, Brendan Coyle, Sam Childers, and Sylvain Chomet.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Toru Kamikawa ranks 1,487 out of 6,245Before him are Satoshi Miyauchi (1959), Akihiro Nishimura (1958), Toshio Matsuura (1955), Norifumi Abe (1975), Junichi Inamoto (1979), and Tomoyasu Hotei (1962). After him are Naoji Ito (1959), Tokiharu Abe (1911), Hikaru Nakamura (1987), Hiromasa Yonebayashi (1973), Toshiaki Imai (1954), and Nikka Costa (1972).

Among REFEREES In Japan

Among referees born in Japan, Toru Kamikawa ranks 2Before him are Yuichi Nishimura (1972). After him are Ryuji Sato (1977), and Yoshimi Yamashita (1986).