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Nogi Maresuke

1849 - 1912

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Count Nogi Maresuke (乃木 希典), also known as Kiten, Count Nogi GCB (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 428,323 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Nogi Maresuke is the 415th most popular military personnel (up from 482nd in 2019), the 196th most popular biography from Japan (up from 229th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Nogi Maresuke ranks 415 out of 2,058. Before him are Pierre Augereau, Reinhard Scheer, Henri Guisan, Mitsuru Ushijima, Israel Tal, and Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel. After him are Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, John of Austria the Younger, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Richard Winters, Erasmo of Narni, and Shoichi Yokoi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Nogi Maresuke ranks 13. Before him are Frances Hodgson Burnett, Bernhard von Bülow, John William Waterhouse, Alfred von Tirpitz, Sergei Witte, and Bertha Benz. After him are John Ambrose Fleming, Blanche Monnier, Eva Gonzalès, Ellen Key, Max Nordau, and Alexander Kielland. Among people deceased in 1912, Nogi Maresuke ranks 24. Before him are William McMaster Murdoch, Johann Martin Schleyer, James Paul Moody, Nettie Stevens, George Darwin, and Franz Reichelt. After him are Osborne Reynolds, Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Bolesław Prus, John Jacob Astor IV, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, and Gerhard Armauer Hansen.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Nogi Maresuke ranks 196 out of 6,245. Before him are Nagisa Oshima (1932), Emperor Antoku (1178), Kitarō (1953), Ashikaga Takauji (1305), Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (1646), and Mitsuru Ushijima (1887). After him are Mori Ōgai (1862), Hiroaki Sato (1932), Emperor Go-Horikawa (1212), Shoichi Yokoi (1915), Empress Genshō (680), and Leo Esaki (1925).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Nogi Maresuke ranks 23. Before him are Yamagata Aritomo (1838), Toyotomi Hideyori (1593), Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885), Iwane Matsui (1878), Sanada Yukimura (1567), and Mitsuru Ushijima (1887). After him are Shoichi Yokoi (1915), Honda Tadakatsu (1548), Tamon Yamaguchi (1892), Hijikata Toshizō (1835), Saitō Hajime (1844), and Mitsuo Fuchida (1902).

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