POLITICIAN

Shōichi Nakagawa

1953 - 2009

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Shōichi Nakagawa (中川 昭一, Nakagawa Shōichi, 19 July 1953 – 3 October 2009) was a Japanese conservative politician in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), who served as Minister of Finance from 24 September 2008 to 17 February 2009. He previously held the posts of Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry and Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi. He was regarded as one of Japan's most attractive public figures. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shōichi Nakagawa has received more than 44,029 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Shōichi Nakagawa is the 16,109th most popular politician (down from 14,431st in 2019), the 1,500th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,278th in 2019) and the 340th most popular Japanese Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Shōichi Nakagawa ranks 16,109 out of 19,576. Before him are Agathocles of Bactria, Grace Mugabe, Manolache Costache Epureanu, Marc Garneau, John A. Costello, and Jim Risch. After him are Mary Arthur McElroy, Hubert Minnis, Wopke Hoekstra, Emiliano González Navero, Carlos Eugenio Restrepo, and Andrés Héctor Carvallo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Shōichi Nakagawa ranks 430. Before him are Jay O. Sanders, Carla Bodendorf, Kaarlo Maaninka, Mehdi Cerbah, Alister McGrath, and Erich Obermayer. After him are Rolf Danneberg, Nikolai Budarin, Paweł Janas, Vera Komisova, Geoffrey Oryema, and Hasse Borg. Among people deceased in 2009, Shōichi Nakagawa ranks 316. Before him are Adriano Directo Emperado, Vladimir Fedotov, Peter Arundell, H. C. Robbins Landon, Heini Walter, and Umaga. After him are Isaac Schwartz, Arturo Gatti, Peter Zadek, Attila Dargay, Mady Rahl, and Willy Kernen.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shōichi Nakagawa ranks 1,500 out of 6,245. Before him are Hikaru Midorikawa (1968), Lynn Okamoto (1970), Mitsuko Horie (1957), Haruki Uemura (1951), Yoshikazu Nagai (1952), and Shuhei Nishida (1910). After him are Kenta Hasegawa (1965), Minoru Honda (1913), Atsuji Miyahara (1958), Yoshihisa Yoshikawa (1936), Hideo Nomo (1968), and Masaaki Kato (1958).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Shōichi Nakagawa ranks 340. Before him are Kunio Hatoyama (1948), Isamu Sonoda (1946), Tomio Okamura (1972), Katsuya Okada (1953), Kono Yasui (1880), and Shigeru Ishiba (1957). After him are Koto Matsudaira (1903), Takashi Yokoyama (1913), Yukio Edano (1964), Tomomi Inada (1959), Yua Mikami (1993), and Seiji Maehara (1962).

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