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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Okita Sōji

1842 - 1868

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Okita Sōji (沖田 総司, 1842 or 1844 – July 19, 1868) was 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 1,316,288 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Okita Sōji is the 457th most popular military personnel (down from 367th in 2019), the 211th most popular biography from Japan (down from 138th in 2019) and the 26th 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 457 out of 1,468. Before him are Oghul Qaimish, Saburō Sakai, Raymond A. Spruance, Pavel Nakhimov, Jan Kubiš, and Paul von Rennenkampf. After him are Gustav Wagner, Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Christian Wirth, Zinovy Rozhestvensky, James Paul Moody, and Roza Shanina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Okita Sōji ranks 27. Before him are Sophus Lie, Vasily Vereshchagin, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Jean Gaston Darboux, Osborne Reynolds, and Giovanni Giolitti. After him are Giovanni Boldini, Édouard Lucas, Johannes Zukertort, Vilhelm Thomsen, Ōyama Iwao, and Catherine Eddowes. Among people deceased in 1868, Okita Sōji ranks 15. Before him are Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, David Brewster, Mihailo Obrenović, James Brooke, James Mayer de Rothschild, and Adalbert Stifter. After him are Franz Berwald, Tewodros II, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, François-Édouard Picot, Kondō Isami, and Julius Plücker.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Okita Sōji ranks 211 out of 6,048. Before him are Takashi Shimura (1905), Masahiko Kimura (1917), Saburō Sakai (1916), Yukio Hatoyama (1947), Kyu Sakamoto (1941), and Emperor Ankō (401). After him are Ashikaga Takauji (1305), Kantarō Suzuki (1868), Rumiko Takahashi (1957), Sada Abe (1905), Akira Yoshizawa (1911), and Jisaburō Ozawa (1886).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Okita Sōji ranks 26. Before him are Yamagata Aritomo (1838), Mitsuo Fuchida (1902), Honda Tadakatsu (1548), Mitsuru Ushijima (1887), Kawakami Gensai (1834), and Saburō Sakai (1916). After him are Jisaburō Ozawa (1886), Shunroku Hata (1879), Nogi Maresuke (1849), Tamon Yamaguchi (1892), Kenji Doihara (1883), and Saitō Hajime (1844).

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