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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 during the bubble economy. Takeshita led the largest faction at the time in the Liberal Democratic Party, which he inherited from Kakuei Tanaka, from the 1980s until his death in 2000. He was dubbed the "last shadow shogun" for his behind-the-scenes influence in Japanese politics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Noboru Takeshita has received more than 324,041 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Noboru Takeshita is the 5,916th most popular politician (down from 5,851st in 2019), the 417th most popular biography from Japan (up from 462nd in 2019) and the 169th most popular Japanese Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Noboru Takeshita ranks 5,916 out of 15,577. Before him are Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein, Dong Xian, Eulji Mundeok, Praskovia Saltykova, Charaton, and Horace Walpole. After him are Ben Carson, Herbert II, Count of Vermandois, Leo V, King of Armenia, Ingenuus, Ramiro III of León, and Hōjō Tokimasa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Noboru Takeshita ranks 92. Before him are Israel Tal, Vasil Bykaŭ, Milka Planinc, Moktar Ould Daddah, Antoni Ramallets, and David Bronstein. After him are Torsten Wiesel, Claude Sautet, Tengiz Abuladze, Katy Jurado, Roland Petit, and Luigi Musso. Among people deceased in 2000, Noboru Takeshita ranks 62. Before him are Akira Nozawa, Keizō Obuchi, Maurice Richard, Don Budge, Jean-Pierre Rampal, and Giorgio Bassani. After him are Ion Gheorghe Maurer, Ivan Stambolić, Kemal Sunal, Phạm Văn Đồng, Claude Sautet, and Barbara Cartland.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Noboru Takeshita ranks 417 out of 6,048. Before him are Ryōji Noyori (1938), Enomoto Takeaki (1836), Takeo Kurita (1889), Konishi Yukinaga (1555), Saburo Shinosaki (null), and Ishirō Honda (1911). After him are Yoshijirō Umezu (1882), Mōri Terumoto (1533), Hayato Ikeda (1899), Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), Masafumi Hara (1943), and Tetsu Katayama (1887).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Noboru Takeshita ranks 169. Before him are Tokugawa Iesada (1824), Emperor Konoe (1139), Emperor Chūkyō (1218), Emperor Go-Fukakusa (1243), Enomoto Takeaki (1836), and Konishi Yukinaga (1555). After him are Mōri Terumoto (1533), Hayato Ikeda (1899), Tetsu Katayama (1887), Emperor Yōzei (867), Emperor Daigo (885), and Emperor Shijō (1231).

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