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Issei Sagawa

1949 - 2022

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Issei Sagawa (佐川 一政, Sagawa Issei, 26 April 1949 – 24 November 2022) also known as Pang or the Kobe Cannibal, was a Japanese lust murderer, cannibal, and necrophiliac known for the killing of Renée Hartevelt in Paris in 1981. Sagawa murdered Hartevelt and then mutilated, cannibalized, and performed necrophilia on her corpse over several days. In France, Sagawa was judged to be legally insane and ordered to be held indefinitely in a mental institution. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Issei Sagawa has received more than 5,212,283 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Issei Sagawa is the 52nd most popular extremist (down from 42nd in 2019), the 210th most popular biography from Japan (down from 131st in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Extremist.

Issei Sagawa is most famous for being a Japanese cannibal who killed and ate a Dutch woman in Paris in 1981.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Issei Sagawa ranks 52 out of 283. Before him are Timothy McVeigh, George Jung, Karl Denke, Pavlik Morozov, Edmund Kemper, and Butch Cassidy. After him are Friedrich Jeckeln, Aileen Wuornos, Sawney Bean, Michel Fourniret, Dennis Rader, and Marc Dutroux.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Issei Sagawa ranks 68. Before him are Gene Simmons, Shelley Duvall, Hugh David Politzer, Tom Berenger, Teófilo Cubillas, and Sissy Spacek. After him are Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Cliff Williams, Philippe Petit, Valery Leontiev, Philippe Starck, and Ivana Trump. Among people deceased in 2022, Issei Sagawa ranks 58. Before him are Antonio Inoki, Arata Isozaki, Valeri Polyakov, James Lovelock, Hardy Krüger, and Stanislav Shushkevich. After him are Robert Curl, Siniša Mihajlović, Ricardo Bofill, Jean-Jacques Sempé, Kirstie Alley, and Claes Oldenburg.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Issei Sagawa ranks 210 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Buretsu (489), Shūsaku Endō (1923), Emperor Richū (336), Leiji Matsumoto (1938), Yozo Aoki (1929), and Terauchi Masatake (1852). After him are Toshihide Maskawa (1940), Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659), Kantarō Suzuki (1868), D. T. Suzuki (1870), Emperor Hanzei (336), and Emperor Chūai (149).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Japan

Among extremists born in Japan, Issei Sagawa ranks 1. After him are Sada Abe (1905), Kōzō Okamoto (1947), and Tsutomu Miyazaki (1962).

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