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Tomoyuki Yamashita

1885 - 1946

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Tomoyuki Yamashita (山下 奉文, Yamashita Tomoyuki, 8 November 1885 – 23 February 1946; also called Tomobumi Yamashita) was a Japanese convicted war criminal and general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Yamashita led Japanese forces during the invasion of Malaya and Battle of Singapore, his conquest of Malaya and Singapore in 70 days earned him the sobriquet "The Tiger of Malaya" and led to the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill calling the ignominious fall of Singapore to Japan the "worst disaster" and "largest capitulation" in British military history. Yamashita was assigned to defend the Philippines from the advancing Allies later in the war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tomoyuki Yamashita has received more than 1,827,490 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Tomoyuki Yamashita is the 296th most popular military personnel, the 104th most popular biography from Japan and the 15th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

Tomoyuki Yamashita was a Japanese general who was in charge of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. He is most famous for his involvement in the war and his occupation of the Philippines.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Tomoyuki Yamashita ranks 296 out of 1,468Before him are Jozef Gabčík, Meng Tian, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, Wilhelm Bittrich, and Robert Nivelle. After him are Qasem Soleimani, François Christophe de Kellermann, Hans-Joachim Marseille, Götz von Berlichingen, Toyotomi Hideyori, and Alexander Yegorov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Tomoyuki Yamashita ranks 31Before him are Heinrich Brüning, Sonia Delaunay, Karl Radek, Sabina Spielrein, Erich von Stroheim, and Luigi Russolo. After him are Hermann Weyl, George Minot, Alexander Löhr, Sinclair Lewis, Heinrich Hoffmann, and Hugo Boss. Among people deceased in 1946, Tomoyuki Yamashita ranks 36Before him are Gilbert N. Lewis, Ananda Mahidol, László Moholy-Nagy, Felix Hoffmann, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, and Helene Schjerfbeck. After him are Wilhelm Marx, Milan Nedić, Ernest Thompson Seton, Empress Wanrong, Alfred Stieglitz, and Ignacy Mościcki.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tomoyuki Yamashita ranks 104 out of 6,048Before him are Abe no Seimei (921), Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886), Kiichiro Toyoda (1894), Kenzō Takada (1939), Kazuyoshi Miura (1967), and Prince Shōtoku (574). After him are Sakamoto Ryōma (1836), Emperor Go-Kōmyō (1633), Emperor Kōshō (-505), Emperor Higashiyama (1675), Empress Meishō (1624), and Kōbō Abe (1924).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Tomoyuki Yamashita ranks 15Before him are Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), Tadamichi Kuribayashi (1891), Date Masamune (1567), Tōgō Heihachirō (1848), Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837), and Ishida Mitsunari (1559). After him are Toyotomi Hideyori (1593), Iwane Matsui (1878), Sanada Yukimura (1567), Shoichi Yokoi (1915), Yamagata Aritomo (1838), and Mitsuo Fuchida (1902).