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Gotō Shinpei

1857 - 1929

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Count Gotō Shinpei (後藤 新平, 24 July 1857 – 13 April 1929) was a Japanese politician, physician and cabinet minister of the Taishō and early Shōwa period Empire of Japan. He served as the head of civilian affairs of Japanese Taiwan, the first director of the South Manchuria Railway, the seventh mayor of Tokyo City, the first Chief Scout of Japan, the first Director-General of NHK, the third principal of Takushoku University, and in a number of cabinet posts. Gotō was one of the most important politicians and administrators in Japanese national government during a time of modernization and reform in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gotō Shinpei has received more than 89,553 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Gotō Shinpei is the 8,464th most popular politician (down from 7,707th in 2019), the 680th most popular biography from Japan (down from 618th in 2019) and the 258th most popular Japanese Politician.

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  • 55.32

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.53

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  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gotō Shinpei ranks 8,464 out of 19,576. Before him are Anker Jørgensen, Robert H. Jackson, Ariobarzanes I of Cappadocia, Michel de l'Hôpital, Octavia the Elder, and Alexander Mach. After him are Adolph John I, Count Palatine of Kleeburg, Enrico Letta, Lupus II of Gascony, Artemio Franchi, Yan Zhenqing, and Marcus Livius Drusus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Gotō Shinpei ranks 59. Before him are Juan Vicente Gómez, Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin, Jacques de Morgan, A. E. Waite, and Herman Bang. After him are Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg, Alfred Loisy, Luigi Illica, Fergus Suter, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, and Émile Cohl. Among people deceased in 1929, Gotō Shinpei ranks 50. Before him are Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia, Mahidol Adulyadej, Jacek Malczewski, Herman Potočnik, Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, and Georg von der Marwitz. After him are Princess Viktoria of Prussia, Clemens von Pirquet, Sergei Nilus, Adolf Meyer, Henri Gervex, and José Batlle y Ordóñez.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Gotō Shinpei ranks 680 out of 6,245. Before him are Hayashi Razan (1583), Takasugi Shinsaku (1839), Katō Takaaki (1860), Masanobu Izumi (1944), Hōjō Ujiyasu (1515), and Shintaro Katsu (1931). After him are Yoshio Fujiwara (null), Saigyō (1118), Tōdō Takatora (1556), Matome Ugaki (1890), Kujō Yoritsune (1218), and Shibusawa Eiichi (1840).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Gotō Shinpei ranks 258. Before him are Emperor Sanjō (976), Prince Kan'in Kotohito (1865), Wakatsuki Reijirō (1866), Shigenori Tōgō (1882), Ii Naosuke (1815), and Katō Takaaki (1860). After him are Kujō Yoritsune (1218), Tokugawa Mitsukuni (1628), Shō Shin (1465), Takako Shimazu (1939), Keisai Eisen (1790), and Prince Morikuni (1301).

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