POLITICIAN

Minoru Genda

1904 - 1989

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General Minoru Genda (源田 実, Genda Minoru, 16 August 1904 – 15 August 1989) was a Imperial Japanese Navy flight officer, JASDF general and politician. He is best known for helping to plan the attack on Pearl Harbor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Minoru Genda has received more than 494,921 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Minoru Genda is the 6,135th most popular politician (down from 5,192nd in 2019), the 444th most popular biography from Japan (down from 325th in 2019) and the 180th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Minoru Genda ranks 6,135 out of 19,576Before him are Ordoño IV of León, Andrew Báthory, Henry II, Duke of Brabant, Uliana of Tver, Zhang Xianzhong, and Artaxias II. After him are Radama I, King Wuling of Zhao, Mette Frederiksen, Gaius Julius Vindex, Nizamüddin Ahmed Pasha, and James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Minoru Genda ranks 77Before him are Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i, Isamu Noguchi, Kuvempu, Felix Nussbaum, Luigi Dallapiccola, and Yves Congar. After him are Ba Jin, Ralph Bunche, Walther Hewel, Edmond Hamilton, Heinz Jost, and Lyudmila Rudenko. Among people deceased in 1989, Minoru Genda ranks 72Before him are Franklin J. Schaffner, Bernard Blier, Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Luis Carlos Galán, Victor French, and R. D. Laing. After him are Lucille Ball, Princess Deokhye, Boris Skossyreff, Robert Mapplethorpe, Arseny Tarkovsky, and Kateb Yacine.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Minoru Genda ranks 444 out of 6,245Before him are Takeo Fukuda (1905), Eisai (1141), Yukio Tsuda (1917), Muryeong of Baekje (462), Takahashi Korekiyo (1854), and Akiyuki Nosaka (1930). After him are Emperor Hanazono (1297), Shigeru Mizuki (1922), Ko Arima (1917), Kido Takayoshi (1833), Masao Uchino (1934), and Tomitaro Makino (1862).

Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Minoru Genda ranks 180Before him are Emperor Shijō (1231), Yoshihiko Noda (1957), Kiichi Miyazawa (1919), Takeo Fukuda (1905), Muryeong of Baekje (462), and Takahashi Korekiyo (1854). After him are Emperor Hanazono (1297), Kido Takayoshi (1833), Rei Kawakubo (1942), Ashikaga Yoshimasa (1435), Emperor Takakura (1161), and Tokugawa Ieyoshi (1793).