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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Mitsuru Ushijima

1887 - 1945

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Mitsuru Ushijima (牛島 満, Ushijima Mitsuru, 31 July 1887 – 22 June 1945) was a Japanese general who served during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. He was the commanding general of the 32nd Army, which fought in the Battle of Okinawa during the final stages of the war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mitsuru Ushijima has received more than 493,570 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Mitsuru Ushijima is the 426th most popular military personnel (up from 439th in 2019), the 185th most popular biography from Japan (up from 215th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

Mitsuru Ushijima is famous for being the general in charge of the Japanese army in Okinawa during World War II. He was an expert in defensive warfare and was able to hold off the American forces for a long time.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Mitsuru Ushijima ranks 426 out of 1,468. Before him are Günther Lütjens, Xu Huang, Alfred von Waldersee, Uqba ibn Nafi, Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, and Gan Ning. After him are Karl Silberbauer, Muqali, John of Austria the Younger, Cao Ren, August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, and Laskarina Bouboulina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Mitsuru Ushijima ranks 53. Before him are Harald Bohr, Violet Jessop, Frederick Fleet, Hans Oster, Heinrich von Vietinghoff, and Avery Brundage. After him are Bernardo Houssay, Josef Harpe, Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, George Pólya, James Paul Moody, and Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni. Among people deceased in 1945, Mitsuru Ushijima ranks 84. Before him are Felix Salten, Maurice Halbwachs, John Ambrose Fleming, Josef Terboven, Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Hans Oster. After him are Fritz Klein, Plutarco Elías Calles, Walter Bradford Cannon, Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, Roza Shanina, and Kurt Gerstein.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Mitsuru Ushijima ranks 185 out of 6,048. Before him are Emperor Antoku (1178), Masamune (1300), Emperor Tenmu (631), Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659), Sen no Rikyū (1522), and Ōkuma Shigenobu (1838). After him are Yoichiro Nambu (1921), Takahito, Prince Mikasa (1915), Emperor Kōtoku (596), Jiroemon Kimura (1897), Emperor Kenzō (450), and Shoko Asahara (1955).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Mitsuru Ushijima ranks 23. Before him are Iwane Matsui (1878), Sanada Yukimura (1567), Shoichi Yokoi (1915), Yamagata Aritomo (1838), Mitsuo Fuchida (1902), and Honda Tadakatsu (1548). After him are Kawakami Gensai (1834), Saburō Sakai (1916), Okita Sōji (1842), Jisaburō Ozawa (1886), Shunroku Hata (1879), and Nogi Maresuke (1849).

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