POLITICIAN

Sōsuke Uno

1922 - 1998

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Sōsuke Uno (宇野 宗佑, Uno Sōsuke, 27 August 1922 – 19 May 1998) was a Japanese politician and former Prime Minister of Japan in 1989. Born in Shiga Prefecture, Uno enrolled in the Kobe College of Commerce before he was conscripted into the army during World War II. In 1960, he entered politics and was elected to the National Diet, becoming a leading Liberal Democratic Party member and a key ally of Yasuhiro Nakasone. Uno served as director of the Defense Agency under Kakuei Tanaka, as director of the Science and Technology Agency under Takeo Fukuda, and as director of the Administrative Management Agency under Masayoshi Ōhira. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sōsuke Uno has received more than 300,629 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia. Sōsuke Uno is the 8,124th most popular politician (down from 7,406th in 2019), the 650th most popular biography from Japan (down from 589th in 2019) and the 250th most popular Japanese Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 300k

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  • 61.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sōsuke Uno ranks 8,124 out of 19,576. Before him are Peire de Montagut, Beatrice of Portugal, Geng Ding, Ferdinand von Bredow, Aleksey Arakcheyev, and Iwakura Tomomi. After him are Cunimund, Jay Rockefeller, Orio Mastropiero, Fradique de Menezes, Francisco Guterres, and Amenemhet VI.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Sōsuke Uno ranks 146. Before him are Elissa Aalto, Fikret Amirov, Dilip Kumar, Tadeusz Borowski, Manolis Glezos, and Felicia Montealegre Bernstein. After him are Anatoli Papanov, Paul Scofield, Susanna Agnelli, Kevin Roche, Margherita Hack, and Alan Perlis. Among people deceased in 1998, Sōsuke Uno ranks 91. Before him are Aymoré Moreira, J. T. Walsh, Ramón Sampedro, Antonio Quarracino, Zlatko Čajkovski, and Nguyễn Văn Linh. After him are Christian Mortensen, Kea Bouman, Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, Bruno Munari, Slava Metreveli, and Beatrice Wood.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sōsuke Uno ranks 650 out of 6,245. Before him are Masaharu Homma (1888), Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (1933), Kinuyo Tanaka (1909), Takashi Murakami (1962), Kiyoshi Tomizawa (1943), and Iwakura Tomomi (1825). After him are Hōnen (1133), Takeo Takagi (1892), Mariya Takeuchi (1955), Keisuke Okada (1868), Emperor Sanjō (976), and Katsu Kaishū (1823).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Sōsuke Uno ranks 250. Before him are Senjūrō Hayashi (1876), Yuriko Koike (1952), Chiang Wei-kuo (1916), Sen Katayama (1859), Masaharu Homma (1888), and Iwakura Tomomi (1825). After him are Keisuke Okada (1868), Emperor Sanjō (976), Prince Kan'in Kotohito (1865), Wakatsuki Reijirō (1866), Shigenori Tōgō (1882), and Ii Naosuke (1815).

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