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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Nogi Maresuke

1849 - 1912

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Count Nogi Maresuke (乃木 希典), also known as Kiten, Count Nogi (December 25, 1849 – September 13, 1912), was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army and a governor-general of Taiwan. He was one of the commanders during the 1894 capture of Port Arthur from China and a prominent figure in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, as commander of the forces which captured Port Arthur from the Russians. He was a national hero in Imperial Japan as a model of feudal loyalty and self-sacrifice, ultimately to the point of suicide. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nogi Maresuke has received more than 380,176 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Nogi Maresuke is the 482nd most popular military personnel (up from 523rd in 2019), the 231st most popular biography from Japan (up from 299th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Nogi Maresuke ranks 482 out of 1,468. Before him are Eberhard von Mackensen, Pál Maléter, Ernst von Mansfeld, Guillaume Brune, Rüdiger von der Goltz, and Shunroku Hata. After him are Vjekoslav Luburić, Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, Tamara Bunke, Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, Conon, and Lauri Törni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Nogi Maresuke ranks 18. Before him are Bertha Benz, John Ambrose Fleming, Eva Gonzalès, Ellen Key, Blanche Monnier, and Infante Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime. After him are Max Nordau, Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Armand Peugeot, Alexander Kielland, Vera Zasulich, and Duke Maximilian Emanuel in Bavaria. Among people deceased in 1912, Nogi Maresuke ranks 29. Before him are George Darwin, Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Osborne Reynolds, James Paul Moody, Henry Tingle Wilde, and Nettie Stevens. After him are Bolesław Prus, Jack Phillips, W. T. Stead, William Booth, Princess Elisabeth of Saxony, and Ion Luca Caragiale.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Nogi Maresuke ranks 231 out of 6,048. Before him are Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Ōkubo Toshimichi (1830), Leo Esaki (1925), Emperor Seinei (444), Shunichi Kumai (1910), and Shunroku Hata (1879). After him are Go Nagai (1945), Hiroshi Yamauchi (1927), Issey Miyake (1938), Emperor Shōkō (1401), Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni (1887), and Osamu Shimomura (1928).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Nogi Maresuke ranks 29. Before him are Mitsuru Ushijima (1887), Kawakami Gensai (1834), Saburō Sakai (1916), Okita Sōji (1842), Jisaburō Ozawa (1886), and Shunroku Hata (1879). After him are Tamon Yamaguchi (1892), Kenji Doihara (1883), Saitō Hajime (1844), Takeichi Nishi (1902), Hisaichi Terauchi (1879), and Hijikata Toshizō (1835).

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