Kaoru Mitoma · TheSportsDB · Courtesy of TheSportsDB
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Kaoru Mitoma is a Japanese association football player who plays as a midfielder. Born on May 20, 1997, in Kawasaki, Hita, he is a citizen of Japan and speaks Japanese and English. He attended the University of Tsukuba. His sibling is Kousei Yuki.
Mitoma has been a member of several sports teams, including Kawasaki Frontale, Royale Union Saint-Gilloise, and Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. He also represents the Japan men's national football team. He participated in the men's tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics. While some sources list his position as Left Wing, others identify him as a midfielder.
Synthesized by Vinony from 33 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Scotland
Discography
- Interstellar Debris2011
- Satellite Hive2012
- I/0 DISC2018
- FF00002018
- reMXW2021
- Fragments2021
- e|m2022
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 7
- Total plays
- 7
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Kaoru+Mitoma">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A slacks-based measure of efficiency in data envelopment analysis
· 2001 · cited 5,129x
- Durvalumab after Chemoradiotherapy in Stage III Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer
· 2017 · cited 3,905x
- The IASLC Lung Cancer Staging Project: Proposals for Revision of the TNM Stage Groupings in the Forthcoming (Eighth) Edition of the TNM Classification for Lung Cancer
· 2016 · cited 3,721x
- The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer
· 2020 · cited 3,334x
- Mechanisms Underlying Inflammation in Neurodegeneration
· 2010 · cited 3,147x
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Key facts
- 2018
- Japan U21
- 2021
- Brighton & Hove Albion
- Full name
- Kaoru Mitoma
- Date of birth
- ( 1997-05-20 ) 20 May 1997 (age 29)
- Place of birth
- Hita , Ōita , Japan
- Height
- 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
- Positions
- Left winger wide midfielder attacking midfielder
- Current team
- Brighton & Hove Albion
- 0000 2005
- Saginuma SC
- 2006 2015
- Kawasaki Frontale
- Years
- Team
- 2016 2019
- University of Tsukuba
- 2018 2021
- Kawasaki Frontale
- 2021 2022
- → Union SG (loan)
- 2017 2021
- Japan U23
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- Brighton and Hove Albion
- Position
- Left Wing
- Nationality
- Japan
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Kawasaki
- Sibling
- Kousei Yuki
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Japanese
- Participant in
- football at the 2020 Summer Olympics – men's tournament
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Japan men's national football team
- Position played
- midfielder
- Country for sport
- Japan
- Image
- Kaoru Mitoma 00-01-48.01.png
- Height
- 1.78
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1997-05-20
- social media followers
- 1395982
- Commons category
- Kaoru Mitoma
- name in native language
- 三笘 薫
- name in kana
- みとま かおる
Sources (7)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 23:30, 9 May 2026 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 03:31, 31 March 2026 (UTC)
Kaoru Mitoma (三笘 薫, Mitoma Kaoru; born 20 May 1997) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion and the Japan national team. He is best known for his dribbling ability and pace.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kaoru Mitoma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.