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Nobusuke Kishi

1896 - 1987

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Nobusuke Kishi (岸 信介, Kishi Nobusuke, 13 November 1896 – 7 August 1987) was a Japanese bureaucrat and politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1957 to 1960. He is remembered for his exploitative economic management of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in China in the 1930s, imprisonment as a suspected war criminal following World War II, and provocation of the massive Anpo protests as prime minister, retrospectively receiving the nickname "Monster of the Shōwa era" (昭和の妖怪; Shōwa no yōkai). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nobusuke Kishi has received more than 1,376,304 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Nobusuke Kishi is the 3,185th most popular politician (down from 3,064th in 2019), the 162nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 143rd in 2019) and the 50th most popular Japanese Politician.

Nobusuke kishi is most famous for being a samurai that was killed by the Tokugawa Shogunate. He was killed because he refused to take an oath of allegiance to the shogunate.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Nobusuke Kishi ranks 3,185 out of 19,576. Before him are Heshen, Henry I, Duke of Bavaria, James Francis Edward Stuart, Otto Wille Kuusinen, Martin Schulz, and Georgy Chicherin. After him are Abu'l-Khayr Khan, Leopold I, Margrave of Austria, Yair Lapid, Albert IV, Duke of Austria, Agis IV, and Pim Fortuyn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Nobusuke Kishi ranks 42. Before him are Helen of Greece and Denmark, Sandro Pertini, Anastasio Somoza García, Lewis Strauss, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Rolf Maximilian Sievert. After him are Tina Modotti, Herbert Backe, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Gottlob Berger, Robert S. Mulliken, and Mamie Eisenhower. Among people deceased in 1987, Nobusuke Kishi ranks 32. Before him are John Huston, Georg Wittig, Jacques Anquetil, Jean Anouilh, Andrés Segovia, and Joseph Campbell. After him are Jaco Pastorius, Didier Pironi, André Masson, Einar Gerhardsen, Douglas Sirk, and Luis Federico Leloir.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Nobusuke Kishi ranks 162 out of 6,245. Before him are Kobayashi Issa (1763), Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885), Iwane Matsui (1878), Ken Watanabe (1959), Shoko Asahara (1955), and Osamu Yamaji (1929). After him are Emperor Ōjin (210), Antonio Inoki (1943), Shohei Imamura (1926), Emperor Kaika (-208), Emperor Tenmu (631), and Masatoshi Koshiba (1926).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Nobusuke Kishi ranks 50. Before him are Tokugawa Hidetada (1579), Kuniaki Koiso (1880), Emperor Sujin (-147), Emperor Kanmu (737), Emperor Kōrei (-341), and Issey Miyake (1938). After him are Emperor Ōjin (210), Emperor Kaika (-208), Emperor Tenmu (631), Junichiro Koizumi (1942), Emperor Suinin (-69), and Yasuhiro Nakasone (1918).

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