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Ichirō Ozawa

1942 - Today

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Ichirō Ozawa (小沢一郎, Ozawa Ichirō; born 24 May 1942) is a Japanese politician and has been a member of the House of Representatives since 1969, representing the Iwate 3rd district (Iwate 2nd district prior to the 1996 general election and Iwate 4th district prior to the 2017 general election). He is often dubbed the "Shadow Shōgun" due to his back-room influence. He was initially a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), serving as its secretary general from 1989 to 1991. He left the LDP in 1993 and subsequently served as head of a number of other political parties, first by co-founding the Japan Renewal Party with Tsutomu Hata, which formed a short-lived coalition government with several other parties opposed to the LDP. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2024). Ichirō Ozawa is the 13,181st most popular politician (down from 12,587th in 2024), the 1,112th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,055th in 2019) and the 306th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ichirō Ozawa ranks 13,181 out of 19,576. Before him are Abas I of Armenia, Zakaria Mohieddin, Humaid bin Rashid Al Nuaimi III, Alexander Chervyakov, Margaret of France, Duchess of Brabant, and Brihadratha Maurya. After him are Andrei Zhelyabov, Guilhermina Suggia, Wojciech Korfanty, Ahmed Laraki, William Camden, and Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Ichirō Ozawa ranks 355. Before him are Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Tammy Wynette, David Proval, Ricardo Blázquez, Valerio Massimo Manfredi, and Gerben Karstens. After him are Marsha Mason, Huey P. Newton, Chantal Goya, Taj Mahal, Eddy Mitchell, and Vladimir Kovalyonok.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ichirō Ozawa ranks 1,112 out of 6,245. Before him are Haruo Nakajima (1929), Naohiro Oyama (1974), Shigeharu Ueki (1954), Yuji Nakayoshi (1972), Tamotsu Suzuki (1947), and Machiko Hasegawa (1920). After him are Chushiro Hayashi (1920), Hidetsugu Yagi (1886), Ayumi Hamasaki (1978), Shuntarō Tanikawa (1931), Yūsaku Matsuda (1949), and Ōmura Masujirō (1824).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Ichirō Ozawa ranks 306. Before him are Kiyoura Keigo (1850), Sadako Ogata (1927), Konoe Sakihisa (1536), Uesugi Harunori (1751), Abe Masahiro (1819), and Sekiryo Kaneda (1901). After him are Ōmura Masujirō (1824), Shigeru Kayano (1926), Masayoshi Ito (1913), Saigō Jūdō (1843), Kōichi Kido (1889), and Makino Nobuaki (1861).

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