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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. 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. Itagaki became War Minister but fell from grace after Japanese defeat in the Soviet–Japanese border conflicts, serving as general for several field armies until surrendering Japanese forces in Southeast Asia in 1945. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Seishirō Itagaki has received more than 345,731 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Seishirō Itagaki is the 600th most popular military personnel (up from 689th in 2019), the 335th most popular biography from Japan (up from 505th in 2019) and the 37th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Seishirō Itagaki ranks 600 out of 1,468. Before him are Mikhail Alekseyev, Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, Hans Speidel, Sergey Akhromeyev, Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, and Otto von Kotzebue. After him are Lautaro, Ashraf Marwan, Demosthenes, Günther Blumentritt, Adolf Strauss, and Jawhar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Seishirō Itagaki ranks 58. Before him are Gunnar Asplund, André Lhote, Per Albin Hansson, Alois Hudal, Sacha Guitry, and Aristides de Sousa Mendes. After him are Jules Pascin, Bess Truman, Theda Bara, Dorando Pietri, Viktor Schauberger, and Sisavang Vong. Among people deceased in 1948, Seishirō Itagaki ranks 54. Before him are Prince Adalbert of Prussia, Unity Mitford, Hans Aumeier, Kōki Hirota, Wolfram Sievers, and Archduke Wilhelm of Austria. After him are Viktor Brack, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Josef Bühler, Béla Miklós, Princess Henriette of Belgium, and Egon Kisch.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Seishirō Itagaki ranks 335 out of 6,048. Before him are Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado (1442), Kunisada (1786), Nobuyuki Abe (1875), Hirokazu Ninomiya (1917), Junji Nishikawa (1907), and Kiyonosuke Marutani (null). After him are Satoshi Nakamoto (1975), Masayoshi Son (1957), Koji Miyata (1923), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (1950), Emperor Go-Toba (1180), and Emperor Kōbun (648).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Seishirō Itagaki ranks 37. Before him are Kenji Doihara (1883), Saitō Hajime (1844), Takeichi Nishi (1902), Hisaichi Terauchi (1879), Hijikata Toshizō (1835), and Nobutake Kondō (1886). After him are Takijirō Ōnishi (1891), Otozō Yamada (1881), Sadao Araki (1877), Takeo Kurita (1889), Yoshijirō Umezu (1882), and Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (1920).

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