POLITICIAN

Nitobe Inazō

1862 - 1933

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Nitobe Inazō (新渡戸 稲造, September 1, 1862 – October 15, 1933) was a Japanese agronomist, diplomat, political scientist, politician, and writer. He studied at Sapporo Agricultural College under the influence of its first president William S. Clark and later went to the United States to study agricultural policy. After returning to Japan, he served as a professor at Sapporo Agricultural College, Kyoto Imperial University, and Tokyo Imperial University, and the deputy secretary general of the League of Nations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nitobe Inazō has received more than 246,684 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Nitobe Inazō is the 7,463rd most popular politician (down from 7,150th in 2019), the 584th most popular biography from Japan (down from 558th in 2019) and the 237th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Nitobe Inazō ranks 7,463 out of 19,576Before him are Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano, Liaquat Ali Khan, Irina Godunova, Kujula Kadphises, Friedrich Kellner, and José Antonio Aguirre. After him are Cığalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha, Nikos Zachariadis, Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Geoffrey I of Villehardouin, Wu Yi, and Pierre de Decker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Nitobe Inazō ranks 53Before him are Infanta María de la Paz of Spain, Anton Ažbe, Cao Kun, Oswald Külpe, Mikhail Nesterov, and Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky. After him are Arvid Lindman, Frederick Delius, Nicholas Murray Butler, Eugen Ehrlich, Edvard Westermarck, and Adolphe Appia. Among people deceased in 1933, Nitobe Inazō ranks 40Before him are Anna de Noailles, Anagarika Dharmapala, Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, Mary Parker Follett, Carl Correns, and Haim Arlosoroff. After him are Friedrich Zander, Hasan Prishtina, Roscoe Arbuckle, Henri Duparc, Pierre Paul Émile Roux, and Sen Katayama.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Nitobe Inazō ranks 584 out of 6,245Before him are Mitsuko Uchida (1948), Ken Takakura (1931), Kinjiro Shimizu (null), Eiji Tsuburaya (1901), Yamada Nagamasa (1590), and Ōtani Yoshitsugu (1559). After him are Kenwa Mabuni (1889), Emperor Reizei (949), Hitoshi Imamura (1886), Toshio Iwatani (1925), Hirokazu Kanazawa (1931), and Hakuin Ekaku (1686).

Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Nitobe Inazō ranks 237Before him are Emperor Horikawa (1079), Shintaro Ishihara (1932), Uesugi Kagekatsu (1556), Emperor Suzaku (923), Emperor Murakami (926), and Yamada Nagamasa (1590). After him are Emperor Reizei (949), Ukita Hideie (1573), Tsutomu Hata (1935), Hōjō Sōun (1432), Hitoshi Ashida (1887), and Zenkō Suzuki (1911).