SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Ninomiya Sontoku

1787 - 1856

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Ninomiya Sontoku (二宮 尊徳, September 4, 1787 – November 17, 1856), also known as Ninomiya Kinjirō (二宮 金次郎), was a Japanese agriculturalist. He lost his parents when he was a boy, but through hard work and diligence, he rebuilt his fallen family at the age of 20. Later, he rebuilt approximately 600 villages and became a shogunate retainer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ninomiya Sontoku has received more than 124,626 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Ninomiya Sontoku is the 351st most popular social activist, the 931st most popular biography from Japan and the 7th most popular Japanese Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Ninomiya Sontoku ranks 351 out of 840. Before him are Sumner Paine, Lempira, Sophie Adlersparre, Mehdi Huseynzade, Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, and Dorothy Day. After him are Klara Zamenhof, Wei Jingsheng, Cindy Kiro, Peter Arshinov, Flora Brovina, and Robert Catesby.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Ninomiya Sontoku ranks 32. Before him are Pellegrino Rossi, Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, Mathieu Orfila, Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo, and Alexander Alyabyev. After him are Nils Gabriel Sefström, Michele Carafa, Ramón Freire, Sven Nilsson, José María Bocanegra, and Joaquín Mosquera. Among people deceased in 1856, Ninomiya Sontoku ranks 39. Before him are Karel Havlíček Borovský, Johann Kaspar Mertz, Vicente López y Planes, Lev Perovski, Julie Guicciardi, and Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen. After him are Agostino Bassi, Jovan Sterija Popović, Henry Pottinger, Josef Kajetán Tyl, Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet, and Michel Félix Dunal.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ninomiya Sontoku ranks 931 out of 6,245. Before him are Akinori Nakayama (1943), Haruo Nakajima (1929), Shigeru Umebayashi (1951), Kiyoshi Shiga (1871), Masakatsu Miyamoto (1938), and Sakuma Shōzan (1811). After him are Takuya Kimura (1972), Tadao Onishi (1943), Shōji Nishimura (1889), Kan Kikuchi (1888), Tomomi Seo (1950), and Tokugawa Nariaki (1800).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Japan

Among social activists born in Japan, Ninomiya Sontoku ranks 7. Before him are Sadako Sasaki (1943), Sakamoto Ryōma (1836), Ishikawa Goemon (1558), Otoya Yamaguchi (1943), Itagaki Taisuke (1837), and Kōtoku Shūsui (1871). After him are Toyohiko Kagawa (1888), Ōsugi Sakae (1885), Gotō Shōjirō (1838), Megumi Yokota (1964), Akira Amano (1973), and Jared Taylor (1951).

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