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Shigeru Ishiba

1957 - Today

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Shigeru Ishiba (Japanese: 石破 茂; born 4 February 1957) is a Japanese politician serving as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since 2024. He has been a member of the House of Representatives since 1986 and has served as Minister of Defense from 2007 to 2008 and Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries from 2008 to 2009, as well as being the Secretary-General of the LDP from 2012 to 2014. Ishiba was born into a political family, with his father, Jirō Ishiba, serving as governor of Tottori Prefecture from 1958 to 1974 before later becoming the Minister for Home Affairs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shigeru Ishiba has received more than 846,499 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Shigeru Ishiba is the 15,996th most popular politician (down from 13,995th in 2019), the 1,480th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,215th in 2019) and the 339th most popular Japanese Politician.

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  • 850k

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  • 52.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Shigeru Ishiba ranks 15,996 out of 19,576. Before him are Andreas Michalakopoulos, Pearlette Louisy, Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés, Attilio Fontana, John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, and John Morton. After him are John Canfield Spencer, Osric of Northumbria, John Sparrow David Thompson, Pedro Pierluisi, Subramanian Swamy, and Ramón Piñeiro López.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Shigeru Ishiba ranks 390. Before him are Alan Eustace, Raul Boesel, Diomedes Díaz, Carmen Calvo Poyato, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, and Adam Nawałka. After him are Rainer Zitelmann, Aki Karvonen, Aleksandr Petrov, Kevin Von Erich, Caterina Davinio, and Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shigeru Ishiba ranks 1,480 out of 6,245. Before him are Noriko Hidaka (1962), Yuji Ide (1975), Hiroyuki Sakashita (1959), Jong Tae-se (1984), Yoshinobu Miyake (1939), and Shinji Tanaka (1960). After him are Kazuo Ozaki (1960), Satoshi Miyauchi (1959), Akihiro Nishimura (1958), Toshio Matsuura (1955), Norifumi Abe (1975), and Junichi Inamoto (1979).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Shigeru Ishiba ranks 339. Before him are Yoshimasa Hayashi (1961), Kunio Hatoyama (1948), Isamu Sonoda (1946), Tomio Okamura (1972), Katsuya Okada (1953), and Kono Yasui (1880). After him are Shōichi Nakagawa (1953), Koto Matsudaira (1903), Takashi Yokoyama (1913), Yukio Edano (1964), Tomomi Inada (1959), and Yua Mikami (1993).

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