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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 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Keizō Obuchi is the 6,263rd 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Keizō Obuchi has had the most page views in the with 297,248 views, followed by English (35,370), and Chinese (15,551). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Bislama (73.79%), Belarusian (62.24%), and Ido (59.27%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Keizō Obuchi ranks 6,263 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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