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Kakuei Tanaka

1918 - 1993

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Kakuei Tanaka (田中 角栄, Tanaka Kakuei, 4 May 1918 – 16 December 1993) was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1972 to 1974. Known for his background in construction and earthy and tenacious political style, Tanaka is the only modern Japanese prime minister who did not finish high school or graduate from a university. Born in Niigata Prefecture to a poor farmer, Tanaka left school at age 14. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kakuei Tanaka has received more than 618,028 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Kakuei Tanaka is the 4,974th most popular politician (up from 5,188th in 2019), the 325th most popular biography from Japan (down from 324th in 2019) and the 135th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Kakuei Tanaka ranks 4,974 out of 19,576. Before him are Munjong of Goryeo, Tassilo III, Duke of Bavaria, František Palacký, Alexander III of Scotland, Léon M'ba, and Conrad Hilton. After him are Emperor Uda, Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully, António Ramalho Eanes, James I, Count of La Marche, Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria, and Otto Hofmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Kakuei Tanaka ranks 66. Before him are Lila Kedrova, Derek Barton, Sam Walton, Henryk Szeryng, W. Eugene Smith, and Gabriel Axel. After him are Edwin G. Krebs, Takashi Kasahara, Robert Aldrich, John Forsythe, João Figueiredo, and Konstantinos Mitsotakis. Among people deceased in 1993, Kakuei Tanaka ranks 48. Before him are River Phoenix, Pat Nixon, Jimmy Doolittle, Don Ameche, Horia Sima, and György Sárosi. After him are Lucia Popp, Hans Baur, Yuri Lotman, Helen Hayes, Bruno Pontecorvo, and Leonid Gaidai.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kakuei Tanaka ranks 325 out of 6,245. Before him are Tokugawa Iemochi (1846), Kondō Isami (1834), Tsuguharu Foujita (1886), Nobuyuki Abe (1875), Kikunae Ikeda (1864), and Saitō Makoto (1858). After him are Tatsuya Nakadai (1932), Emperor Uda (867), Shoichi Nishimura (1912), Emperor Ankan (466), Kawakami Gensai (1834), and Seishirō Itagaki (1885).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Kakuei Tanaka ranks 135. Before him are Jiroemon Kimura (1897), Emperor Seiwa (850), Tokugawa Iemochi (1846), Kondō Isami (1834), Nobuyuki Abe (1875), and Saitō Makoto (1858). After him are Emperor Uda (867), Emperor Ankan (466), Tokugawa Ieharu (1737), Emperor Go-Hanazono (1419), Saionji Kinmochi (1849), and Inukai Tsuyoshi (1855).

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