POLITICIAN

Noboru Takeshita

1924 - 2000

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Noboru Takeshita (竹下 登, Takeshita Noboru, 26 February 1924 – 19 June 2000) was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1987 to 1989. Born in Shimane Prefecture, Takeshita attended Waseda University and was drafted into the army during the Pacific War. He was first elected to the National Diet in 1958, and served as chief cabinet secretary in 1971–1972 and in 1974, and as finance minister from 1979–1980, 1982–1986, and in 1988, during which he signed the Plaza Accord in 1985. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Noboru Takeshita has received more than 349,979 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Noboru Takeshita is the 6,348th most popular politician (down from 5,901st in 2019), the 476th most popular biography from Japan (down from 415th in 2019) and the 197th most popular Japanese Politician.

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  • 5.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Noboru Takeshita ranks 6,348 out of 19,576. Before him are Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei, Georg Ritter von Schönerer, Katharine, Duchess of Kent, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Waleran III, Duke of Limburg, and Yasovarman I. After him are Augustinas Voldemaras, Herleva, Matsukata Masayoshi, Emperor Ichijō, Leo Jogiches, and Michel Kafando.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Noboru Takeshita ranks 96. Before him are Leonid Kogan, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Jacques Vergès, Roza Shanina, Tengiz Abuladze, and Robert Frank. After him are Marina Berti, Jozef Tomko, Richard Bull, Claude Sautet, Fess Parker, and Torsten Wiesel. Among people deceased in 2000, Noboru Takeshita ranks 66. Before him are Jean-Pierre Rampal, Loretta Young, Heinz Harmel, Giorgio Bassani, Hirokazu Ninomiya, and Keizō Obuchi. After him are Don Budge, Kemal Sunal, Barbara Cartland, Maurice Richard, Pierre Plantard, and Baden Powell.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Noboru Takeshita ranks 476 out of 6,245. Before him are Takeda Sōkaku (1859), Hidetoshi Nakata (1977), Takeo Kurita (1889), Tokugawa Ienobu (1662), Hayato Ikeda (1899), and Tokugawa Ieshige (1712). After him are Matsukata Masayoshi (1835), Emperor Ichijō (980), Shozo Tsugitani (1940), Hiroshi Kanazawa (1950), Ashikaga Yoshiteru (1536), and Masanori Tokita (1925).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Noboru Takeshita ranks 197. Before him are Oichi (1547), Emperor Kōkō (830), Takeda Sōkaku (1859), Tokugawa Ienobu (1662), Hayato Ikeda (1899), and Tokugawa Ieshige (1712). After him are Matsukata Masayoshi (1835), Emperor Ichijō (980), Ashikaga Yoshiteru (1536), Kusunoki Masashige (1294), Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu (1902), and Hajime Sugiyama (1880).

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