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Yoshio Furukawa

1934 - Today

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Yoshio Furukawa (古川 好男, Furukawa Yoshio; born July 5, 1934) is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yoshio Furukawa is the 325th most popular soccer player (up from 400th in 2019), the 301st most popular biography from Japan (up from 393rd in 2019) and the 70th most popular Japanese Soccer Player.

Yoshio Furukawa is most famous for his work in the field of electrochemistry. Furukawa is the inventor of the fuel cell, which is a device that converts chemical energy into electrical energy.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Yoshio Furukawa ranks 325 out of 21,273Before him are Manuel Neuer, Takeshi Kamo, Koichi Oita, Seishiro Shimatani, Yasuyuki Kuwahara, and Toshio Hirabayashi. After him are Sérgio Conceição, Dida, Shoko Hamada, Nagayasu Honda, Nobuo Matsunaga, and Masanobu Izumi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Yoshio Furukawa ranks 80Before him are Hans Hollein, Kenzo Ohashi, Diana Wynne Jones, Heng Samrin, Rudolf Schuster, and Abimael Guzmán. After him are Garry Marshall, Renata Scotto, Marshall Rosenberg, Bingu wa Mutharika, Dave Mackay, and Cláudio Hummes.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoshio Furukawa ranks 301 out of 6,245Before him are Yamagata Aritomo (1838), Yasuyuki Kuwahara (1942), Tsugumi Ohba (1950), Konishi Yukinaga (1555), Toshio Hirabayashi (null), and Emperor Ingyō (376). After him are Emperor Shōmu (701), Shoko Hamada (1950), Tokugawa Iemochi (1846), Nagayasu Honda (null), Nobuyuki Abe (1875), and Shuji Nakamura (1954).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Japan

Among soccer players born in Japan, Yoshio Furukawa ranks 70Before him are Junji Nishikawa (1907), Takeshi Kamo (1915), Koichi Oita (1914), Seishiro Shimatani (1938), Yasuyuki Kuwahara (1942), and Toshio Hirabayashi (null). After him are Shoko Hamada (1950), Nagayasu Honda (null), Nobuo Matsunaga (1921), Masanobu Izumi (1944), Seki Matsunaga (1928), and Hisataka Okamoto (1933).