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Sen Katayama

1859 - 1933

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Sen Katayama (片山 潜, Katayama Sen, December 26, 1859 – November 5, 1933), born Yabuki Sugataro (藪木 菅太郎, Yabuki Sugatarō), was an early Japanese Marxist political activist and journalist, one of the original members of the American Communist Party and co-founder, in 1922, of the Japanese Communist Party. After 1884, he spent most of his life abroad, especially in the United States and the Soviet Union, where he was very active in the international socialist community, and after 1920, the communist community. Katayama had a weak base inside Japan, and was little known there. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sen Katayama has received more than 83,596 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Sen Katayama is the 8,041st most popular politician (down from 7,951st in 2019), the 640th most popular biography from Japan (down from 637th in 2019) and the 247th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sen Katayama ranks 8,041 out of 19,576Before him are George II of Bulgaria, Harold Holt, Lew Wallace, Tung Chee-hwa, Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga, and Kaykhusraw III. After him are Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Maria Aurora von Königsmarck, John III, Duke of Brabant, Gregor Gysi, Arthur II, Duke of Brittany, and Sarit Thanarat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Sen Katayama ranks 51Before him are Léon Duguit, Georg Alexander Pick, Gustave Kahn, Alfred Hettner, Nahum Sokolow, and Walther von Lüttwitz. After him are Kenneth Grahame, Havelock Ellis, Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria, Radko Dimitriev, Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, and Prince Oscar Bernadotte. Among people deceased in 1933, Sen Katayama ranks 46Before him are Nitobe Inazō, Friedrich Zander, Hasan Prishtina, Roscoe Arbuckle, Henri Duparc, and Pierre Paul Émile Roux. After him are Hermann von François, Theodor Lessing, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Frank Jarvis, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, and Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sen Katayama ranks 640 out of 6,245Before him are Masashi Kishimoto (1974), Takashi Mizuno (1931), Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu (1905), Yoshida Kenkō (1283), Masatoshi Nakayama (1913), and Itagaki Taisuke (1837). After him are Ogata Kōrin (1658), Satoshi Tajiri (1965), Yasuo Haruyama (1906), Masaharu Homma (1888), Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (1933), and Kinuyo Tanaka (1909).

Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Sen Katayama ranks 247Before him are Hōjō Sōun (1432), Hitoshi Ashida (1887), Zenkō Suzuki (1911), Senjūrō Hayashi (1876), Yuriko Koike (1952), and Chiang Wei-kuo (1916). After him are Masaharu Homma (1888), Iwakura Tomomi (1825), Sōsuke Uno (1922), Keisuke Okada (1868), Emperor Sanjō (976), and Prince Kan'in Kotohito (1865).