POLITICIAN

Toshiki Kaifu

1931 - 2022

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Toshiki Kaifu (海部 俊樹, Kaifu Toshiki, 2 January 1931 – 9 January 2022) was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1989 to 1991. Born in Nagoya, Kaifu graduated from Waseda University and was first elected to the Diet in 1960 as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. He served as education minister from 1976 to 1977 under Takeo Fukuda, and from 1985 to 1986 under Yasuhiro Nakasone. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Toshiki Kaifu has received more than 264,119 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Toshiki Kaifu is the 6,219th most popular politician (down from 5,025th in 2019), the 462nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 304th in 2019) and the 189th most popular Japanese Politician.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Toshiki Kaifu ranks 6,219 out of 19,576. Before him are Filip Vujanović, Gisela of Swabia, Álvaro Uribe, Emperor Go-Suzaku, Hantili I, and Adolfo Rodríguez Saá. After him are Lucius Verginius Rufus, Hedwig Jagiellon, Duchess of Bavaria, Emperor Xizong of Tang, Bona of Savoy, Emperor Kang of Jin, and Haxhi Lleshi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Toshiki Kaifu ranks 103. Before him are Lamberto Dini, Márta Mészáros, Mauricio Kagel, Seyni Kountché, Tom Wesselmann, and Silvia Pinal. After him are Lucio Urtubia, Gunnel Lindblom, Olympia Dukakis, Ivan Klíma, Larry Silverstein, and Luís Cabral. Among people deceased in 2022, Toshiki Kaifu ranks 103. Before him are Pierre Soulages, Michel Bouquet, Cláudio Hummes, Mirosław Hermaszewski, Viktor Saneyev, and Catherine Spaak. After him are Bob Saget, Margit Korondi, Irene Cara, Radu Lupu, Andy Fletcher, and Gal Costa.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Toshiki Kaifu ranks 462 out of 6,245. Before him are Tokugawa Ieyoshi (1793), Morihiro Hosokawa (1938), Hideyo Noguchi (1876), Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653), Nobutake Kondō (1886), and Emperor Go-Suzaku (1009). After him are Shunichi Kumai (1910), Hirokazu Ninomiya (1917), Teiichi Matsumaru (1909), Keizō Obuchi (1937), Oichi (1547), and Hon'inbō Shūsaku (1829).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Toshiki Kaifu ranks 189. Before him are Rei Kawakubo (1942), Ashikaga Yoshimasa (1435), Emperor Takakura (1161), Tokugawa Ieyoshi (1793), Morihiro Hosokawa (1938), and Emperor Go-Suzaku (1009). After him are Keizō Obuchi (1937), Oichi (1547), Emperor Kōkō (830), Takeda Sōkaku (1859), Tokugawa Ienobu (1662), and Hayato Ikeda (1899).

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