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Shūmei Ōkawa

1886 - 1957

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Shūmei Ōkawa (大川 周明, Ōkawa Shūmei, 6 December 1886 – 24 December 1957) was a Japanese nationalist and Pan-Asianist writer, known for his publications on Japanese history, philosophy of religion, Indian philosophy, and colonialism. Ōkawa advocated a form of Pan-Asianism which promoted Asian solidarity as a cover for Japanese imperialism and beliefs in Japanese racial supremacy. He co-founded the Japanese radical nationalist group Yūzonsha, and in 1926 he published his most influential work: Japan and the Way of the Japanese (Nihon oyobi Nihonjin no michi), which was so popular that it would be reprinted 46 times by the end of World War II. Ōkawa was also involved in a number of attempted coups d'état by the Japanese military, including the March Incident. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shūmei Ōkawa has received more than 511,782 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Shūmei Ōkawa is the 863rd most popular military personnel, the 605th most popular biography from Japan and the 58th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Shūmei Ōkawa ranks 863 out of 2,058. Before him are Karol Świerczewski, Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel, Hiroshi Ōshima, Hamazasp Babadzhanian, Serena, and Dimitrios Ioannidis. After him are Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan, Jack Phillips, Leon Rupnik, Sergey Kamenev, Yitzhak Sadeh, and Joseph Trumpeldor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Shūmei Ōkawa ranks 88. Before him are Hitoshi Imamura, Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, Manuel Ponce, Sholem Schwarzbard, Edwin Fischer, and Hiroshi Ōshima. After him are Olaf Stapledon, Edward Weston, Florence Lawrence, Frank Nitti, Anandyn Amar, and Marthe Bibesco. Among people deceased in 1957, Shūmei Ōkawa ranks 80. Before him are Kurt von Tippelskirch, Josef Hofmann, Zhou Xuan, Washington Luís, Josef Lada, and Eugenio Castellotti. After him are Irving Baxter, Hasui Kawase, Álvaro Gestido, Rudolf Schmidt, Sholem Asch, and Prince Franz of Bavaria.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shūmei Ōkawa ranks 605 out of 6,245. Before him are Atsushi Nakajima (1909), Kōzō Okamoto (1947), Hiroshi Ōshima (1886), Chōjun Miyagi (1888), Ukita Hideie (1573), and Tsutomu Hata (1935). After him are Hajime Moriyasu (1968), Yukio Shimomura (1932), Shigeko Higashikuni (1925), Shizo Kanakuri (1891), Isao Tomita (1932), and Misao Tamai (1903).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Shūmei Ōkawa ranks 58. Before him are Sakanoue no Tamuramaro (758), Ōtani Yoshitsugu (1559), Hitoshi Imamura (1886), Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (1920), Gunichi Mikawa (1888), and Hiroshi Ōshima (1886). After him are Takeo Takagi (1892), Nakano Takeko (1847), Takasugi Shinsaku (1839), Hōjō Ujiyasu (1515), Tōdō Takatora (1556), and Matome Ugaki (1890).

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