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Kantarō Suzuki

1868 - 1948

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Baron Kantarō Suzuki (鈴木 貫太郎, 18 January 1868 – 17 April 1948) was a Japanese politician and admiral who served as prime minister of Japan from 7 April to 17 August 1945, during World War II. He was prime minister at the time of Japan's surrender on 15 August. Born in Osaka, Suzuki graduated from the Naval Academy and Staff College and served in the First Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars. He was promoted to full admiral in 1923 and served as chief of the naval general staff from 1925 to 1929. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kantarō Suzuki has received more than 601,336 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Kantarō Suzuki is the 3,791st most popular politician (up from 3,976th in 2019), the 213th most popular biography from Japan (down from 212th in 2019) and the 77th most popular Japanese Politician.

Kantarō Suzuki is most famous for being the first Japanese person to play in Major League Baseball.

Memorability Metrics

  • 600k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Kantarō Suzuki ranks 3,791 out of 19,576. Before him are Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark, Anastasia of Kiev, Ayşe Sultan, Álvaro Obregón, Louis, Prince Napoléon, and Sin-Muballit. After him are Robert Peel, John, Elector of Saxony, Juan Almeida Bosque, Jarmila Kratochvílová, Mithridates I of Pontus, and Carolina Herrera.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Kantarō Suzuki ranks 43. Before him are Alexandra David-Néel, Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, Alfred Weber, Pompeu Fabra, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. After him are Émile Bernard, Édouard Vuillard, Felix Hausdorff, Koloman Moser, Gustav Noske, and S. P. L. Sørensen. Among people deceased in 1948, Kantarō Suzuki ranks 35. Before him are Georges Bernanos, Hugo Boss, Umberto Giordano, D. W. Griffith, Iwane Matsui, and Pompeu Fabra. After him are Emil Ludwig, Yoshiko Kawashima, Zelda Fitzgerald, Hans Aumeier, Uzeyir Hajibeyov, and Kōki Hirota.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kantarō Suzuki ranks 213 out of 6,245. Before him are Leiji Matsumoto (1938), Yozo Aoki (1929), Terauchi Masatake (1852), Issei Sagawa (1949), Toshihide Maskawa (1940), and Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659). After him are D. T. Suzuki (1870), Emperor Hanzei (336), Emperor Chūai (149), Tsugumi Ohba (1950), Emperor Go-Kashiwabara (1464), and Emperor Shōkō (1401).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Kantarō Suzuki ranks 77. Before him are Emperor Go-Horikawa (1212), Empress Genshō (680), Yukio Hatoyama (1947), Emperor Buretsu (489), Emperor Richū (336), and Terauchi Masatake (1852). After him are Emperor Hanzei (336), Emperor Chūai (149), Emperor Go-Kashiwabara (1464), Emperor Shōkō (1401), Empress Jingū (169), and Emperor Sutoku (1119).

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