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Iwane Matsui

1878 - 1948

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Iwane Matsui (松井 石根, Matsui Iwane, July 27, 1878 – December 23, 1948) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and the commander of the expeditionary force sent to China in 1937. He was convicted of war crimes and executed by the Allies for his involvement in the Nanjing Massacre. Born in Nagoya, Matsui chose a military career and served in combat during the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Iwane Matsui has received more than 732,882 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Iwane Matsui is the 331st most popular military personnel (down from 326th in 2019), the 126th most popular biography from Japan (down from 116th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

Iwane Matsui is most famous for being the first Japanese player to play in Major League Baseball.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Iwane Matsui ranks 331 out of 1,468. Before him are Kirill Meretskov, Bahram Chobin, Charles François Dumouriez, Roger de Flor, Walther Wenck, and Ivan Paskevich. After him are Sanada Yukimura, Hugo Sperrle, Shoichi Yokoi, Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, Friedrich Dollmann, and Titus Labienus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Iwane Matsui ranks 18. Before him are Lucien Febvre, Pyotr Wrangel, Alfred Döblin, Ferenc Molnár, Paul Reynaud, and Milan Nedić. After him are Gustav Radbruch, Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, Shigeru Yoshida, Gemma Galgani, Louis Chevrolet, and Yakov Yurovsky. Among people deceased in 1948, Iwane Matsui ranks 30. Before him are Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Kurt Schwitters, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, John J. Pershing, Umberto Giordano, and Hugo Boss. After him are D. W. Griffith, Tamam Shud case, Georges Bernanos, Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Waldemar Hoven.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Iwane Matsui ranks 126 out of 6,048. Before him are Empress Kōjun (1903), Emperor Nintoku (290), Emperor Kōrei (-341), Ken Watanabe (1959), Isamu Akasaki (1929), and Jiro Horikoshi (1903). After him are Sanada Yukimura (1567), Shoichi Yokoi (1915), Momofuku Ando (1910), Yamagata Aritomo (1838), Issei Sagawa (1949), and Sakichi Toyoda (1867).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Iwane Matsui ranks 17. Before him are Date Masamune (1567), Tōgō Heihachirō (1848), Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837), Ishida Mitsunari (1559), Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885), and Toyotomi Hideyori (1593). After him are Sanada Yukimura (1567), Shoichi Yokoi (1915), Yamagata Aritomo (1838), Mitsuo Fuchida (1902), Honda Tadakatsu (1548), and Mitsuru Ushijima (1887).

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