POLITICIAN

Takeo Fukuda

1905 - 1995

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Takeo Fukuda (福田 赳夫, Fukuda Takeo, 14 January 1905 – 5 July 1995) was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1976 to 1978. Born in Gunma Prefecture and educated at Tokyo Imperial University, Fukuda served as an official in the Ministry of Finance for two decades before entering politics. He was first elected to the Diet in 1952, and served as agriculture, forestry, and fisheries minister in 1959–1960 under Nobusuke Kishi, as head of the party's political affairs section under Hayato Ikeda, and as finance minister (1965–1966, 1968–1971) and foreign minister (1971–1972) under Eisaku Satō, becoming his protégé. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Takeo Fukuda has received more than 220,062 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Takeo Fukuda is the 6,070th most popular politician (down from 6,063rd in 2019), the 438th most popular biography from Japan (down from 432nd in 2019) and the 177th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Takeo Fukuda ranks 6,070 out of 19,576. Before him are Hor, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Marie-Louise Meilleur, Pedro Lascuráin, Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen, and Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi. After him are Jia Sidao, Ang Duong, Rudolf Lange, Agostino Barbarigo, Henry A. Wallace, and Jean-Luc Dehaene.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Takeo Fukuda ranks 74. Before him are Pedro Petrone, Clara Bow, Gareth Jones, Guy Mollet, Erwin Chargaff, and Federica Montseny. After him are André Jolivet, Chen Yun, Attila József, Paul Nizan, Joseph Kosma, and Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria. Among people deceased in 1995, Takeo Fukuda ranks 72. Before him are James Meade, Elizabeth Montgomery, Ernest Mandel, Heiner Müller, Krešimir Ćosić, and Yves Congar. After him are Chen Yun, Eileen Chang, Morarji Desai, Gabriel Urgebadze, Joseph Needham, and Franciszek Gajowniczek.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Takeo Fukuda ranks 438 out of 6,245. Before him are Yoshihiko Noda (1957), Takijirō Ōnishi (1891), Kiichi Miyazawa (1919), Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), Satoshi Kon (1963), and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (1950). After him are Eisai (1141), Yukio Tsuda (1917), Muryeong of Baekje (462), Takahashi Korekiyo (1854), Akiyuki Nosaka (1930), and Minoru Genda (1904).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Takeo Fukuda ranks 177. Before him are Azai Nagamasa (1545), Emperor Jomei (593), Tokugawa Iesada (1824), Emperor Shijō (1231), Yoshihiko Noda (1957), and Kiichi Miyazawa (1919). After him are Muryeong of Baekje (462), Takahashi Korekiyo (1854), Minoru Genda (1904), Emperor Hanazono (1297), Kido Takayoshi (1833), and Rei Kawakubo (1942).

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