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Kijūrō Shidehara

1872 - 1951

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Baron Kijūrō Shidehara (幣原 喜重郎, Shidehara Kijūrō, 13 September 1872 – 10 March 1951) was a Japanese diplomat and politician, who was prime minister of Japan from 1945 to 1946 and a leading proponent of pacifism in Japan before and after World War II. He was the last Japanese Prime Minister who was a member of the peerage (kazoku). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kijūrō Shidehara has received more than 286,402 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Kijūrō Shidehara is the 5,415th most popular politician (up from 5,599th in 2019), the 369th most popular biography from Japan (up from 376th in 2019) and the 152nd most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Kijūrō Shidehara ranks 5,415 out of 19,576Before him are James III of Majorca, Emperor Xingzong of Liao, Canute II of Sweden, Prince Jean, Duke of Guise, Egils Levits, and Simon Thassi. After him are Bocchus I, Emperor Jingzong of Tang, Margaret of Austria, Queen of Bohemia, Chris Patten, D. F. Malan, and Ichirō Hatoyama.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Kijūrō Shidehara ranks 44Before him are Willem de Sitter, Julius Fučík, Henry Tingle Wilde, Édouard Herriot, Marcel Renault, and Ralph Vaughan Williams. After him are Ottokar Czernin, Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria, Vladimir Arsenyev, Mathilde Kschessinska, Princess Margaret of Prussia, and Mikhail Tsvet. Among people deceased in 1951, Kijūrō Shidehara ranks 38Before him are Princess Hélène of Orléans, Kim Chaek, Émile Chartier, Erich Naumann, Élie Cartan, and Willem Mengelberg. After him are Fritz Thyssen, Robert J. Flaherty, François Georges-Picot, Ernst von Weizsäcker, Nikolai Medtner, and Artur Schnabel.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kijūrō Shidehara ranks 369 out of 6,245Before him are Takashi Takabayashi (1931), Yasuo Suzuki (1913), Tamotsu Asakura (null), Hisataka Okamoto (1933), Ryū Murakami (1952), and Emperor Nijō (1143). After him are Ichirō Hatoyama (1883), Yoshitoshi (1839), Emperor Montoku (827), Emperor Heizei (773), Ko Takamoro (1907), and Masahiro Hamazaki (1940).

Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Kijūrō Shidehara ranks 152Before him are Emperor Go-Toba (1180), Emperor Chūkyō (1218), Emperor Rokujō (1164), Emperor Kōbun (648), Emperor Konoe (1139), and Emperor Nijō (1143). After him are Ichirō Hatoyama (1883), Emperor Montoku (827), Emperor Heizei (773), Hara Takashi (1856), Tanaka Giichi (1864), and Ōyama Iwao (1842).