1943 - 1960
Otoya Yamaguchi (山口 二矢, Yamaguchi Otoya, 22 February 1943 – 2 November 1960) was a Japanese right-wing ultranationalist youth who assassinated Inejirō Asanuma, chairman of the Japan Socialist Party, on 12 October 1960. Yamaguchi rushed the stage and stabbed Asanuma with a wakizashi-like short sword while Asanuma was participating in a televised election debate at Hibiya Public Hall in Tokyo. Yamaguchi, who was 17 years of age at the time, had been a member of Bin Akao's far-right Greater Japan Patriotic Party, but had resigned earlier that year, just prior to the assassination. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otoya Yamaguchi has received more than 1,637,461 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Otoya Yamaguchi is the 180th most popular social activist (down from 168th in 2019), the 349th most popular biography from Japan and the 4th most popular Japanese Social Activist.
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Among social activists, Otoya Yamaguchi ranks 180 out of 538. Before him are Soh Jaipil, Fred Phelps, Kang Pan-sok, Mordechai Vanunu, Rudi Dutschke, and Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen. After him are Guru Ram Das, Salvador Puig Antich, Emily Davison, Andrés Bonifacio, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Yelena Bonner.
1864 - 1951
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 174
1929 - 2014
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 175
1892 - 1932
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 176
1954 - Present
HPI: 58.04
Rank: 177
1940 - 1979
HPI: 57.99
Rank: 178
1818 - 1888
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 179
1943 - 1960
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 180
1534 - 1581
HPI: 57.93
Rank: 181
1948 - 1974
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 182
1872 - 1913
HPI: 57.88
Rank: 183
1863 - 1897
HPI: 57.79
Rank: 184
1868 - 1963
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 185
1923 - 2011
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 186
Among people born in 1943, Otoya Yamaguchi ranks 117. Before him are Reinaldo Arenas, Michael Spence, Ri Chun-hee, Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório, Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior, and Tobe Hooper. After him are Richard Smalley, René Préval, Jack Bruce, Mohammed Badie, Griselda Blanco, and Oskar Lafontaine. Among people deceased in 1960, Otoya Yamaguchi ranks 43. Before him are Salvatore Ferragamo, Norodom Suramarit, Clara Haskil, Soghomon Tehlirian, A. L. Kroeber, and Jussi Björling. After him are Jacques Becker, Frank Lloyd, Inejiro Asanuma, Leonard Woolley, Yan Xishan, and Paul Abraham.
1943 - 1990
HPI: 58.64
Rank: 111
1943 - Present
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 112
1943 - Present
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 113
1943 - 2019
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 114
1943 - Present
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 115
1943 - 2017
HPI: 58.02
Rank: 116
1943 - 1960
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 117
1943 - 2005
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 118
1943 - 2017
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 119
1943 - 2014
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 120
1943 - Present
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 121
1943 - 2012
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 122
1943 - Present
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 123
1898 - 1960
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 37
1896 - 1960
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 38
1895 - 1960
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 39
1896 - 1960
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 40
1876 - 1960
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 41
1911 - 1960
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 42
1943 - 1960
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 43
1906 - 1960
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 44
1886 - 1960
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 45
1898 - 1960
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 46
1880 - 1960
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 47
1883 - 1960
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 48
1892 - 1960
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 49
Among people born in Japan, Otoya Yamaguchi ranks 349 out of 6,048. Before him are Emperor Go-Nijō (1285), Emperor Sushun (520), Ikkyū (1394), Ichiyō Higuchi (1872), Tanaka Giichi (1864), and Takeshi Inoue (1928). After him are Emperor Toba (1103), Hideki Shirakawa (1936), Emperor Go-Fushimi (1288), Emperor Seiwa (850), Emperor Go-Uda (1267), and Oichi (1547).
1285 - 1308
HPI: 58.01
Rank: 343
520 - 592
HPI: 58.01
Rank: 344
1394 - 1481
HPI: 57.98
Rank: 345
1872 - 1896
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 346
1864 - 1929
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 347
1928 - 1992
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 348
1943 - 1960
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 349
1103 - 1156
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 350
1936 - Present
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 351
1288 - 1336
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 352
850 - 881
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 353
1267 - 1324
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 354
1547 - 1583
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 355
Among social activists born in Japan, Otoya Yamaguchi ranks 4. Before him are Sadako Sasaki (1943), Sakamoto Ryōma (1836), and Ishikawa Goemon (1558). After him are Itagaki Taisuke (1837), Toyohiko Kagawa (1888), Gotō Shōjirō (1838), Megumi Yokota (1964), Akira Amano (1973), and Jared Taylor (1951).
1943 - 1955
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 1
1836 - 1867
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 2
1558 - 1594
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 3
1943 - 1960
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 4
1837 - 1919
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 5
1888 - 1960
HPI: 50.33
Rank: 6
1838 - 1897
HPI: 48.89
Rank: 7
1964 - Present
HPI: 46.30
Rank: 8
1973 - Present
HPI: 43.20
Rank: 9
1951 - Present
HPI: 40.59
Rank: 10