MILITARY PERSONNEL

Mutsuhiro Watanabe

1918 - 2003

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Mutsuhiro Watanabe (Japanese: 渡邊睦裕, 18 January 1918 – 1 April 2003), nicknamed "the Bird" by his prisoners was an Imperial Japanese Army soldier in World War II who served in multiple military internment camps. He was infamous for his extremely cruel and evil mistreatment of allied POWs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mutsuhiro Watanabe has received more than 3,687,714 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Mutsuhiro Watanabe is the 1,703rd most popular military personnel, the 1,165th most popular biography from Japan and the 89th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Mutsuhiro Watanabe ranks 1,703 out of 2,058. Before him are Fritz-Hubert Gräser, Silvestras Žukauskas, Władysław Raginis, Walther Reinhardt, Nikola Ivanov, and Lawrence Oates. After him are Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, Ivan Maslennikov, Gérard Leman, Tolmides, Charles Lee, and Alfred Keller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Mutsuhiro Watanabe ranks 196. Before him are Gérard de Vaucouleurs, Hans Berglund, Gisela Arendt, Abdallah Ibrahim, Frane Matošić, and Vladimir Dudintsev. After him are John Bromwich, Peter Blau, San Yu, Edward Van Dijck, Russell Kirk, and Said Mohamed Djohar. Among people deceased in 2003, Mutsuhiro Watanabe ranks 216. Before him are Yuriy Voynov, Jesse Carver, Tomáš Pospíchal, Dorothee Sölle, Winston Graham, and Leonid Filatov. After him are Rosalyn Tureck, Emília Rotter, Bernard Dowiyogo, Terenci Moix, Stellan Nilsson, and André Noyelle.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Mutsuhiro Watanabe ranks 1,165 out of 6,245. Before him are Masamune Shirow (1961), Gozo Shioda (1915), Tsukasa Hojo (1959), Kenjiro Tsuda (1971), Hirotugu Akaike (1927), and Masayuki Uemura (1943). After him are Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi (1902), Ikuo Matsumoto (1941), Yumiko Igarashi (1950), Yoshiki Tanaka (1952), Namie Amuro (1977), and Takumi Minamino (1995).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Mutsuhiro Watanabe ranks 89. Before him are Akashi Motojiro (1864), Kijirō Nambu (1869), Jinichi Kusaka (1888), Kiyotake Kawaguchi (1892), Shirase Nobu (1861), and Nozu Michitsura (1840). After him are Kiichiro Higuchi (1888), and George W. Casey Jr. (1948).

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