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Morihiro Saito

1928 - 2002

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Morihiro Saito (斉藤 守弘 Saitō Morihiro, March 31, 1928–May 13, 2002) was a teacher of the Japanese martial art of aikido, with many students around the world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Morihiro Saito has received more than 87,298 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Morihiro Saito is the 31st most popular martial arts (down from 24th in 2019), the 1,092nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 852nd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Japanese Martial Arts.

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Among MARTIAL ARTS

Among martial arts, Morihiro Saito ranks 31 out of 179. Before him are Matsumura Sōkon, Frank Dux, Benny Urquidez, Anderson Silva, Semmy Schilt, and Shoji Nishio. After him are Jérôme Le Banner, Peter Aerts, Gozo Shioda, Francis Ngannou, Mirko Cro Cop, and Rickson Gracie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Morihiro Saito ranks 338. Before him are Đorđe Martinović incident, Marian Seldes, Eno Raud, Anita Brookner, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, and André Schwarz-Bart. After him are Hushang Ebtehaj, Arthur Foulkes, Nora Nova, Dara Singh, Art Farmer, and Flóra Kádár. Among people deceased in 2002, Morihiro Saito ranks 180. Before him are Nils Bohlin, Kakhi Asatiani, Irán Eory, Said Belqola, Rudolf Augstein, and Gabrielle Wittkop. After him are Richard Helms, Abdel Rahman Badawi, Marcel Kint, Mikhail Devyataev, Alan Lomax, and Milton Berle.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Morihiro Saito ranks 1,092 out of 6,245. Before him are Uemura Shōen (1875), Shirase Nobu (1861), Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda (1949), Kiyotsugu Hirayama (1874), Masujiro Nishida (1899), and Teizo Takeuchi (1908). After him are Miho Kaneda (1950), Peter Doi (1892), Yoshio Kikugawa (1944), Mitski (1990), Megumi Hayashibara (1967), and Shunichiro Okano (1931).

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Among MARTIAL ARTS In Japan

Among martial arts born in Japan, Morihiro Saito ranks 14. Before him are Higaonna Kanryō (1853), Hironori Ōtsuka (1892), Motobu Chōki (1870), Koichi Tohei (1920), Matsumura Sōkon (1809), and Shoji Nishio (1927). After him are Gozo Shioda (1915), Takayuki Kubota (1934), Hidetaka Nishiyama (1928), Toyokazu Nomura (1949), Takao Kawaguchi (1950), and Kazuhiro Ninomiya (1946).

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