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Keizō Obuchi

1937 - 2000

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Keizō Obuchi (小渕 恵三, Obuchi Keizō, 25 June 1937 – 14 May 2000) was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1998 to 2000. Obuchi was elected to the House of Representatives in Gunma Prefecture in 1963, becoming the youngest legislator in Japanese history, and was re-elected to his seat eleven times. Obuchi rose through the ranks of the Liberal Democratic Party and distinguished himself in the prominent posts of Chief Cabinet Secretary and Minister for Foreign Affairs in the 1980s and 1990s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Keizō Obuchi has received more than 302,663 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Keizō Obuchi is the 5,482nd most popular politician (down from 5,258th in 2019), the 365th most popular biography from Japan (up from 381st in 2019) and the 145th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Keizō Obuchi ranks 5,482 out of 15,577Before him are Ali Hassan Salameh, Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano, Erich Naumann, Emperor Houshao of Han, László Csatáry, and Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge. After him are Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark, Beatriz, Duchess of Viseu, Jinseong of Silla, Berthold, Duke of Bavaria, Hadji Murad, and Beatrice of Castile.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Keizō Obuchi ranks 85Before him are Maryse Condé, Shirley Bassey, Tony Burton, Tom Simpson, Billy Dee Williams, and Boris Pugo. After him are Song Hye-rim, Dragoslav Šekularac, Cornelius A. Smith, Richard Møller Nielsen, Bruce McCandless II, and Ryutaro Hashimoto. Among people deceased in 2000, Keizō Obuchi ranks 57Before him are Loretta Young, Lolo Ferrari, A. E. van Vogt, Hirokazu Ninomiya, Lazar Koliševski, and Akira Nozawa. After him are Maurice Richard, Don Budge, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Giorgio Bassani, Noboru Takeshita, and Ion Gheorghe Maurer.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Keizō Obuchi ranks 365 out of 6,048Before him are Azai Nagamasa (1545), Inukai Tsuyoshi (1855), Torakusu Yamaha (1851), Kenichi Fukui (1918), Hirohiko Araki (1960), and Takijirō Ōnishi (1891). After him are Masao Takada (null), Hishikawa Moronobu (1618), Takeshi Natori (null), Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859), Emperor Nijō (1143), and Kuroda Kiyotaka (1840).

Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Keizō Obuchi ranks 145Before him are Emperor Go-Uda (1267), Oichi (1547), Empress Masako (1963), Emperor Uda (867), Azai Nagamasa (1545), and Inukai Tsuyoshi (1855). After him are Emperor Nijō (1143), Kuroda Kiyotaka (1840), Inejiro Asanuma (1898), Kiichi Miyazawa (1919), Ichirō Hatoyama (1883), and Shimazu Yoshihiro (1535).