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Masaharu Homma

1888 - 1946

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Masaharu Homma (本間 雅晴, Honma Masaharu, November 27, 1887 – April 3, 1946) was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Homma commanded the Japanese 14th Army, which invaded the Philippines and perpetrated the Bataan Death March. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Masaharu Homma has received more than 707,727 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Masaharu Homma is the 8,069th most popular politician (down from 6,814th in 2019), the 644th most popular biography from Japan (down from 519th in 2019) and the 248th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Masaharu Homma ranks 8,069 out of 19,576. Before him are Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach, Francis I Rákóczi, Tostig Godwinson, Chandrika Kumaratunga, Manolis Glezos, and Ottone Visconti. After him are Princess Joséphine Caroline of Belgium, Titus Flavius Clemens, Louis Armand I, Prince of Conti, Lubomír Štrougal, Jacob Tullin Thams, and Christian Ludwig II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Masaharu Homma ranks 91. Before him are Victor Goldschmidt, Gunichi Mikawa, Chōjun Miyagi, Hans Richter, Hans von Salmuth, and Milan Stojadinović. After him are Paul Morand, S. S. Van Dine, Francesco Baracca, Odile Defraye, Richard Kohn, and Roberto Assagioli. Among people deceased in 1946, Masaharu Homma ranks 78. Before him are George Arliss, Henri Gouraud, Joseph Stilwell, Mihai Antonescu, Leon Rupnik, and Hans Loritz. After him are István Bethlen, Wilhelm Souchon, William Joyce, Elisabeth Becker, Paul Lincke, and Hermann von Keyserling.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masaharu Homma ranks 644 out of 6,245. Before him are Masatoshi Nakayama (1913), Itagaki Taisuke (1837), Sen Katayama (1859), Ogata Kōrin (1658), Satoshi Tajiri (1965), and Yasuo Haruyama (1906). After him are Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (1933), Kinuyo Tanaka (1909), Takashi Murakami (1962), Kiyoshi Tomizawa (1943), Iwakura Tomomi (1825), and Sōsuke Uno (1922).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Masaharu Homma ranks 248. Before him are Hitoshi Ashida (1887), Zenkō Suzuki (1911), Senjūrō Hayashi (1876), Yuriko Koike (1952), Chiang Wei-kuo (1916), and Sen Katayama (1859). After him are Iwakura Tomomi (1825), Sōsuke Uno (1922), Keisuke Okada (1868), Emperor Sanjō (976), Prince Kan'in Kotohito (1865), and Wakatsuki Reijirō (1866).

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