POLITICIAN

Seiji Maehara

1962 - Today

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Seiji Maehara (前原 誠司, Maehara Seiji, born 30 April 1962) is a Japanese politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives of Japan since 1993. He founded and led the political party, Free Education for All, before its merger into Nippon Ishin no Kai on 3 October 2024. Maehara was the leader of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) from 2005 to 2006, and later served as Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and Minister of Foreign Affairs under the cabinets of Yukio Hatoyama and Naoto Kan, before resigning from the cabinet in March 2011 after he acknowledged receiving illegal donations from a South Korean national living in Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Seiji Maehara has received more than 98,565 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Seiji Maehara is the 17,015th most popular politician (down from 15,574th in 2019), the 1,712th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,526th in 2019) and the 346th most popular Japanese Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Seiji Maehara ranks 17,015 out of 19,576. Before him are Steingrímur J. Sigfússon, Barbara Jordan, Isidore Mankofsky, John Adams Dix, Anton Rop, and Yahya Ould Hademine. After him are Hérard Abraham, Vladimir Rushailo, Zeid Raad Al Hussein, Don Young, John Graves Simcoe, and Yevgeny Roizman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Seiji Maehara ranks 485. Before him are Hannes Holm, Andreas Felder, Polly Samson, George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, Jeff Dunham, and Arnold Scholten. After him are Yevgeny Roizman, Corrado Lorefice, Sjón, Arsen Fadzaev, Mehdi Jomaa, and Aminata Touré.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Seiji Maehara ranks 1,712 out of 6,245. Before him are Sana (1996), Kazumi Kishi (1975), Tatsuya Fujiwara (1982), Masushi Ouchi (1943), Yui (1987), and Mari Iijima (1963). After him are Yukitaka Omi (1952), Tetsuji Hashiratani (1964), Tsunku (1968), Tak Matsumoto (1961), Kengo Nakamura (1980), and Shinji Hosokawa (1960).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Seiji Maehara ranks 346. Before him are Shōichi Nakagawa (1953), Koto Matsudaira (1903), Takashi Yokoyama (1913), Yukio Edano (1964), Tomomi Inada (1959), and Yua Mikami (1993). After him are Renhō (1967), Kinuko Tanida (1939), Seiko Noda (1960), Seiko Hashimoto (1964), Taro Yamamoto (1974), and Tōru Hashimoto (1969).

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