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Okita Sōji

1842 - 1868

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Okita Sōji (沖田 総司, 1842 or 1844 – July 19, 1868) was a Japanese samurai and the captain of the first unit of the Shinsengumi, a special police force in Kyoto during the late shogunate period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Okita Sōji has received more than 1,400,873 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Okita Sōji is the 278th most popular military personnel (up from 457th in 2019), the 107th most popular biography from Japan (up from 210th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

Okita Sōji was a samurai who served the Tokugawa shogunate. He is best known for his involvement in the assassination of Ii Naosuke, the first and last Japanese official to be assassinated in the Edo period.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Okita Sōji ranks 278 out of 2,058. Before him are Pedro de Valdivia, Hasso von Manteuffel, Raimondo Montecuccoli, Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Hans-Joachim Marseille, and Svetozar Boroević. After him are Werner Mölders, Usama ibn Zayd, Lothar Rendulic, Roman Shukhevych, Federico da Montefeltro, and Titus Labienus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Okita Sōji ranks 14. Before him are John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Dominic Savio, Josef Breuer, Camille Flammarion, Paul Lafargue, and Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria. After him are Hermann Cohen, Arrigo Boito, Georg Brandes, Vasily Vereshchagin, Giovanni Giolitti, and James Dewar. Among people deceased in 1868, Okita Sōji ranks 9. Before him are James Buchanan, August Ferdinand Möbius, Ludwig I of Bavaria, Mongkut, August Schleicher, and Alexandre Colonna-Walewski. After him are William T. G. Morton, Mihailo Obrenović, David Brewster, Adalbert Stifter, Franz Berwald, and James Mayer de Rothschild.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Okita Sōji ranks 107 out of 6,245. Before him are Empress Meishō (1624), Sugawara no Michizane (845), Joan Fontaine (1917), Kunishige Kamamoto (1944), Hiroto Muraoka (1931), and Sei Shōnagon (966). After him are Emperor Go-Momozono (1758), Kenji Mizoguchi (1898), Emperor Kōshō (-505), Fumimaro Konoe (1891), Abe no Seimei (921), and Tarō Asō (1940).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Okita Sōji ranks 14. Before him are Chūichi Nagumo (1887), Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837), Date Masamune (1567), Tōgō Heihachirō (1848), and Tadamichi Kuribayashi (1891). After him are Shunroku Hata (1879), Ishida Mitsunari (1559), Yamagata Aritomo (1838), Toyotomi Hideyori (1593), Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885), and Iwane Matsui (1878).

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