MILITARY PERSONNEL

Seishirō Itagaki

1885 - 1948

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General Seishirō Itagaki (板垣 征四郎, Itagaki Seishirō, 21 January 1885 – 23 December 1948) was a Japanese military officer and politician who served as a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II and War Minister from 1938 to 1939. He was a disciple of Kanji Ishiwara and his ideas were strongly influenced by his apocalyptic Buddhist beliefs, being firmly convinced of the idea of a "Final War" in which Japan would unite the entire world into a single nation, resulting in an era of true peace, regeneration and harmony. Itagaki was a main conspirator behind the Mukden Incident and held prestigious chief of staff posts in the Kwantung Army and China Expeditionary Army during the early Second Sino–Japanese War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Seishirō Itagaki has received more than 372,655 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Seishirō Itagaki is the 556th most popular military personnel (up from 600th in 2019), the 331st most popular biography from Japan (up from 333rd in 2019) and the 31st most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Seishirō Itagaki ranks 556 out of 2,058. Before him are Peroz III, Karl Silberbauer, Harpagus, Franz von Hipper, Kawakami Gensai, and Valerii Zaluzhnyi. After him are Bob Denard, Oenomaus, Hans Baur, Kurt Franz, Adolf Heusinger, and Jisaburō Ozawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Seishirō Itagaki ranks 57. Before him are Otto Klemperer, Sacha Guitry, Per Albin Hansson, Franz Böhme, Theda Bara, and André Lhote. After him are G. W. Pabst, Gunnar Asplund, Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Jules Pascin, Władysław Raczkiewicz, and Sydney Chaplin. Among people deceased in 1948, Seishirō Itagaki ranks 46. Before him are Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Kōki Hirota, Tamam Shud case, Josef Bühler, Dieter Wisliceny, and Rudolf Brandt. After him are Otto Rasch, Kenji Doihara, Waldemar Hoven, Princess Henriette of Belgium, Wolfram Sievers, and Viktor Brack.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Seishirō Itagaki ranks 331 out of 6,245. Before him are Kakuei Tanaka (1918), Tatsuya Nakadai (1932), Emperor Uda (867), Shoichi Nishimura (1912), Emperor Ankan (466), and Kawakami Gensai (1834). After him are Sesshū Tōyō (1420), Tokugawa Ieharu (1737), Emperor Go-Hanazono (1419), Jisaburō Ozawa (1886), Saburō Sakai (1916), and Kenji Doihara (1883).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Seishirō Itagaki ranks 31. Before him are Honda Tadakatsu (1548), Tamon Yamaguchi (1892), Hijikata Toshizō (1835), Saitō Hajime (1844), Mitsuo Fuchida (1902), and Kawakami Gensai (1834). After him are Jisaburō Ozawa (1886), Saburō Sakai (1916), Kenji Doihara (1883), Taira no Masakado (903), Takeichi Nishi (1902), and Hisaichi Terauchi (1879).

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