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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. Born in Gunma Prefecture, Obuchi graduated from Waseda University and was first elected to the National Diet in 1963, becoming one of the youngest legislators in Japanese history. He rose through the ranks of the Liberal Democratic Party, serving as director of the Okinawa Development Agency from 1979 to 1980, chief cabinet secretary under Noboru Takeshita from 1987 to 1989, and foreign minister under Ryutaro Hashimoto from 1997 to 1998, where he distinguished himself during talks with Russia on the Kuril Islands dispute. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Keizō Obuchi has received more than 329,185 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Keizō Obuchi is the 6,262nd most popular politician (down from 5,468th in 2019), the 466th most popular biography from Japan (down from 363rd in 2019) and the 190th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Keizō Obuchi ranks 6,262 out of 19,576. Before him are Rinchinbal Khan, Egon Bahr, Charles the Child, Per Brahe the Younger, Aq Sunqur al-Hajib, and Manuel I of Trebizond. After him are Muhammad IV of Morocco, Chen Yi, Otto Abetz, Branko Mikulić, Tugay Bey, and Archduke Maximilian Eugen of Austria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Keizō Obuchi ranks 97. Before him are Franz Vranitzky, Boris Pugo, Bruce McCandless II, Billy Dee Williams, Ronald Venetiaan, and Neeme Järvi. After him are Francis Veber, Jean-Pierre Beltoise, Shirley Bassey, John Horton Conway, Kōichirō Matsuura, and Baden Powell. Among people deceased in 2000, Keizō Obuchi ranks 65. Before him are Herta Bothe, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Loretta Young, Heinz Harmel, Giorgio Bassani, and Hirokazu Ninomiya. After him are Noboru Takeshita, Don Budge, Kemal Sunal, Barbara Cartland, Maurice Richard, and Pierre Plantard.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Keizō Obuchi ranks 466 out of 6,245. Before him are Nobutake Kondō (1886), Emperor Go-Suzaku (1009), Toshiki Kaifu (1931), Shunichi Kumai (1910), Hirokazu Ninomiya (1917), and Teiichi Matsumaru (1909). After him are Oichi (1547), Hon'inbō Shūsaku (1829), Emperor Kōkō (830), Takeda Sōkaku (1859), Hidetoshi Nakata (1977), and Takeo Kurita (1889).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Keizō Obuchi ranks 190. Before him are Ashikaga Yoshimasa (1435), Emperor Takakura (1161), Tokugawa Ieyoshi (1793), Morihiro Hosokawa (1938), Emperor Go-Suzaku (1009), and Toshiki Kaifu (1931). After him are Oichi (1547), Emperor Kōkō (830), Takeda Sōkaku (1859), Tokugawa Ienobu (1662), Hayato Ikeda (1899), and Tokugawa Ieshige (1712).

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