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Iwasaki Yatarō

1835 - 1885

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Iwasaki Yatarō (岩崎 弥太郎, January 9, 1835 – February 7, 1885) was a Japanese industrialist and financier known as the founder of Mitsubishi, one of Japan's largest conglomerates. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Iwasaki Yatarō has received more than 378,635 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Iwasaki Yatarō is the 117th most popular businessperson (up from 138th in 2019), the 240th most popular biography from Japan (up from 261st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Businessperson.

Iwasaki Yatarō was a Japanese businessman who founded the Mitsubishi conglomerate. He is most famous for the Mitsubishi company, which he founded in 1870.

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  • 380k

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  • 60.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Iwasaki Yatarō ranks 117 out of 847. Before him are Lakshmi Mittal, Ole Kirk Christiansen, Al-Waleed bin Talal, Chung Ju-yung, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, and William Randolph Hearst. After him are César Ritz, William Boeing, Madam C. J. Walker, Ivana Trump, Uli Hoeneß, and François Pinault.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Iwasaki Yatarō ranks 23. Before him are Josef Stefan, Eduard Strauss, Demetrius Vikelas, Nikolai Rubinstein, Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, and Sai Baba of Shirdi. After him are Adolph Wagner, Hijikata Toshizō, Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Shoqan Walikhanov, Elisha Gray, and Mendele Mocher Sforim. Among people deceased in 1885, Iwasaki Yatarō ranks 10. Before him are Muhammad Ahmad, Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia, Carl Spitzweg, Ferdinand II of Portugal, Jens Peter Jacobsen, and Charles George Gordon. After him are Rosalía de Castro, L'Inconnue de la Seine, Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern, Edmond François Valentin About, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, and Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Iwasaki Yatarō ranks 240 out of 6,245. Before him are Hōjō Tokimune (1251), Tokugawa Yoshimune (1684), Kenji Tochio (1941), Setsuko Hara (1920), Emperor Ninken (449), and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358). After him are Fujiwara no Michinaga (966), Masahiko Kimura (1917), Masamune (1300), Satoshi Ōmura (1935), Ken Noritake (1922), and Masahito, Prince Hitachi (1935).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Japan

Among businesspeople born in Japan, Iwasaki Yatarō ranks 5. Before him are Soichiro Honda (1906), Kiichiro Toyoda (1894), Akio Morita (1921), and Torakusu Yamaha (1851). After him are Hiroshi Yamauchi (1927), Masayoshi Son (1957), Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859), Mineko Iwasaki (1949), Shibusawa Eiichi (1840), Eiji Toyoda (1913), and Mikimoto Kōkichi (1858).

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