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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Saitō Hajime

1844 - 1915

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Saitō Hajime (斎藤 一) (born Yamaguchi Hajime (山口 一); February 18, 1844 – September 28, 1915) was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period, who most famously served as the captain of the third unit of the Shinsengumi. He was one of the few core members who survived the numerous wars of the Bakumatsu period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saitō Hajime has received more than 626,893 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Saitō Hajime is the 564th most popular military personnel (up from 595th in 2019), the 292nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 390th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Saitō Hajime ranks 564 out of 1,468Before him are Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, Jack Phillips, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, Werner Ostendorff, Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, and Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach. After him are Aegidius, Heraclius the Elder, Maarten Tromp, Joseph Gallieni, Filipp Golikov, and Takeichi Nishi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Saitō Hajime ranks 31Before him are Charles-Marie Widor, Charles-Émile Reynaud, `Abdu'l-Bahá, Karl Lueger, Julius Wellhausen, and Sophia Tolstaya. After him are Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon, Henry J. Heinz, Adolf Engler, Mihály Munkácsy, Eduard Strasburger, and Louis Riel. Among people deceased in 1915, Saitō Hajime ranks 19Before him are Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, Michel Bréal, Armand Peugeot, Sergei Taneyev, Émile Waldteufel, and Edith Cavell. After him are Arthur Auwers, Anna Leonowens, James Murray, Julius von Payer, Konstantin Makovsky, and Anton von Werner.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Saitō Hajime ranks 292 out of 6,048Before him are Emperor Tsuchimikado (1196), Empress Shōken (1849), Toru Takemitsu (1930), Emperor Monmu (683), Yosano Akiko (1878), and Maeda Toshiie (1538). After him are Sesshū Tōyō (1420), Saionji Kinmochi (1849), Yoshirō Mori (1937), Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358), Yoshitoshi (1839), and Chūya Nakahara (1907).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Saitō Hajime ranks 32Before him are Okita Sōji (1842), Jisaburō Ozawa (1886), Shunroku Hata (1879), Nogi Maresuke (1849), Tamon Yamaguchi (1892), and Kenji Doihara (1883). After him are Takeichi Nishi (1902), Hisaichi Terauchi (1879), Hijikata Toshizō (1835), Nobutake Kondō (1886), Seishirō Itagaki (1885), and Takijirō Ōnishi (1891).