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Hajime Sugiyama

1880 - 1945

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Hajime Sugiyama (杉山 元, Sugiyama Hajime / Sugiyama Gen, January 1, 1880 – September 12, 1945) was a Japanese field marshal and one of Japan's military leaders for most of the Second World War. As Army Minister in 1937, Sugiyama was a driving force behind the launch of hostilities against China in retaliation for the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. After being named the Army’s Chief of Staff in 1940, he became a leading advocate for expansion into Southeast Asia and preventive war against the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hajime Sugiyama has received more than 280,895 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Hajime Sugiyama is the 6,482nd most popular politician (up from 6,812th in 2019), the 490th most popular biography from Japan (up from 518th in 2019) and the 203rd most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hajime Sugiyama ranks 6,482 out of 19,576. Before him are Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu, William II, Count of Hainaut, Ludmilla Tourischeva, Alexander Lebed, Henry II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal, and Ralph I, Count of Vermandois. After him are Drogön Chögyal Phagpa, Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, Sadyr Japarov, Pavel Axelrod, Apollonius Molon, and Hendrik Verwoerd.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Hajime Sugiyama ranks 56. Before him are Mikhail Tomsky, Marie-Louise Meilleur, Elias, Duke of Parma, Archie Hahn, Robert Stolz, and Grock. After him are Mitsumasa Yonai, Abram Ioffe, Margherita Sarfatti, Nikolaj Velimirović, Osami Nagano, and Alexander Grin. Among people deceased in 1945, Hajime Sugiyama ranks 129. Before him are Robert Desnos, Albrecht Penck, Ernst-Robert Grawitz, Paul Pelliot, Kitaro Nishida, and Constanze Manziarly. After him are Charles Fabry, Alexander Siloti, Otto Kittel, Ignacio Zuloaga, Walther Hewel, and Fritz Freitag.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hajime Sugiyama ranks 490 out of 6,245. Before him are Kitaro Nishida (1870), Kusunoki Masashige (1294), Miki Matsubara (1959), Satoru Iwata (1959), Soemu Toyoda (1885), and Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu (1902). After him are Hifuyo Uchida (null), Yasuji Okamura (1884), Nobuo Matsunaga (1921), Mitsumasa Yonai (1880), Junji Kawano (1945), and Yasuyuki Kuwahara (1942).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Hajime Sugiyama ranks 203. Before him are Noboru Takeshita (1924), Matsukata Masayoshi (1835), Emperor Ichijō (980), Ashikaga Yoshiteru (1536), Kusunoki Masashige (1294), and Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu (1902). After him are Mitsumasa Yonai (1880), Emperor Kameyama (1249), Tokugawa Ietsugu (1709), Kōichirō Matsuura (1937), Minamoto no Yoriie (1182), and Yamamoto Gonnohyōe (1852).

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