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Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni

1887 - 1990

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Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni (東久邇宮稔彦王, Higashikuni-no-miya Naruhiko Ō, 3 December 1887 – 20 January 1990) was a Japanese imperial prince, a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Army and the 30th Prime Minister of Japan from 17 August 1945 to 9 October 1945, a period of 54 days. He is the shortest-serving prime minister, resigning after eight weeks. An uncle-in-law of Emperor Hirohito twice over, Prince Higashikuni was the only member of the Japanese imperial family to head a cabinet and was the last general officer of the Imperial Japanese military to become Prime Minister. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni has received more than 516,412 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni is the 4,284th most popular politician (up from 4,387th in 2019), the 236th most popular biography from Japan (up from 268th in 2019) and the 89th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni ranks 4,284 out of 15,577. Before him are Andrianampoinimerina, Boran, André de Montbard, Yolanda of Flanders, Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst. After him are Óscar Carmona, Miguel da Paz, Prince of Portugal, Ramzan Kadyrov, Gung Ye, Liutprand, King of the Lombards, and Wegaf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni ranks 59. Before him are Mitsuru Ushijima, Bernardo Houssay, Josef Harpe, Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, George Pólya, and James Paul Moody. After him are Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, Paul Wittgenstein, Conrad Hilton, Mamoru Shigemitsu, and Arnold Zweig. Among people deceased in 1990, Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni ranks 45. Before him are Princess Sophie of Hohenberg, Aaron Copland, Oldřich Nejedlý, Patrick White, Vasili Kuznetsov, and Jill Ireland. After him are Art Blakey, Ugo Tognazzi, Alexander Pechersky, Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Reinaldo Arenas, and Yiannis Ritsos.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni ranks 236 out of 6,048. Before him are Shunroku Hata (1879), Nogi Maresuke (1849), Go Nagai (1945), Hiroshi Yamauchi (1927), Issey Miyake (1938), and Emperor Shōkō (1401). After him are Osamu Shimomura (1928), Fumihito, Prince Akishino (1965), Kaoru Ishikawa (1915), Susumu Tonegawa (1939), Nobuyoshi Araki (1940), and Shintaro Ishihara (1932).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni ranks 89. Before him are Emperor Senka (467), Emperor Hanzei (336), Ōkubo Toshimichi (1830), Emperor Seinei (444), Issey Miyake (1938), and Emperor Shōkō (1401). After him are Shintaro Ishihara (1932), Mōri Motonari (1497), Emperor Go-Mizunoo (1596), Emperor Go-Kashiwabara (1464), Amakusa Shirō (1621), and Hōjō Tokimune (1251).

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