POLITICIAN

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ichirō Ozawa has received more than 174,641 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Ichirō Ozawa is the 12,595th most popular politician (down from 10,110th in 2019), the 1,055th most popular biography from Japan (down from 829th in 2019) and the 308th most popular Japanese Politician.

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  • 170k

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  • 57.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ichirō Ozawa ranks 12,595 out of 19,576. Before him are Maithripala Sirisena, Thubten Choekyi Nyima, 9th Panchen Lama, King Weilie of Zhou, Viggo Kampmann, William Camden, and Fritz Manteuffel. After him are Heraclianus, Mohammed Mzali, Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros, Eurycrates, Jenő Fock, and Akram al-Hawrani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Ichirō Ozawa ranks 345. Before him are Fred Thompson, Ricardo Blázquez, Wojciech Pszoniak, Jack DeJohnette, Derek Parfit, and Eddy Mitchell. After him are Marsha Mason, Leon Russell, Yvette Mimieux, Eumir Deodato, Tariq al-Hashimi, and Dennis Meadows.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ichirō Ozawa ranks 1,055 out of 6,245. Before him are Hiroshi Yoshida (1876), Teruo Nimura (1943), Norio Wakamoto (1945), Akira Miyawaki (1928), Takeshi Okada (1956), and Shizuo Miyama (null). After him are Unkei (1151), So Yamamura (1910), Kazuhiko Inoue (1954), Kyusaku Ogino (1882), Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (1962), and Rentarō Mikuni (1923).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Ichirō Ozawa ranks 308. Before him are Sakuma Shōzan (1811), Tokugawa Nariaki (1800), Abe Masahiro (1819), Makino Nobuaki (1861), Ōmura Masujirō (1824), and Uchida Kōsai (1865). After him are Sekiryo Kaneda (1901), Uesugi Harunori (1751), Taki Inoue (1963), Mutsu Munemitsu (1844), Hisako, Princess Takamado (1953), and Masayoshi Ito (1913).

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