MILITARY PERSONNEL

Yamagata Aritomo

1838 - 1922

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Prince Yamagata Aritomo (山縣 有朋, 14 June 1838 – 1 February 1922) was a Japanese politician and general who served as prime minister of Japan from 1889 to 1891, and from 1898 to 1900. He was a leading member of the genrō, a group of senior statesmen who dominated politics during the Meiji era. As the Imperial Japanese Army's inaugural Chief of Staff, he was the chief architect of the Empire of Japan's military and its reactionary ideology; some historians consider him the "father" of Japanese militarism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yamagata Aritomo has received more than 514,603 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia. Yamagata Aritomo is the 337th most popular military personnel (up from 338th in 2019), the 141st most popular biography from Japan (down from 130th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

Yamagata Aritomo is most famous for being the first Japanese prime minister to be born in Japan.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Yamagata Aritomo ranks 337 out of 2,058. Before him are Yermak Timofeyevich, Kul Tigin, Thomas the Slav, Ishida Mitsunari, Emilio De Bono, and Wilhelm Bittrich. After him are Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, Kim Philby, Italo Gariboldi, and Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Yamagata Aritomo ranks 14. Before him are Tobias Asser, Ernest Solvay, Franz Brentano, Émile Loubet, Léon Gambetta, and Prince Philippe, Count of Paris. After him are Anton Mauve, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Princess Louise of Prussia, Liliʻuokalani, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, and Camille Jordan. Among people deceased in 1922, Yamagata Aritomo ranks 20. Before him are Michael Collins, Ernest Shackleton, Albert I, Prince of Monaco, Ernest Solvay, Vittorio Monti, and Rudolf Kjellén. After him are Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia, Andrey Markov, Léon Bonnat, Nellie Bly, Paul Deschanel, and Gabriel Narutowicz.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yamagata Aritomo ranks 141 out of 6,245. Before him are Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797), Shunroku Hata (1879), Tokugawa Hidetada (1579), Kakuichi Mimura (1931), Ishida Mitsunari (1559), and Tameo Ide (1908). After him are Kuniaki Koiso (1880), Makoto Kobayashi (1944), Sakichi Toyoda (1867), Toyotomi Hideyori (1593), Emperor Sujin (-147), and Ishikawa Goemon (1558).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Yamagata Aritomo ranks 17. Before him are Date Masamune (1567), Tōgō Heihachirō (1848), Tadamichi Kuribayashi (1891), Okita Sōji (1842), Shunroku Hata (1879), and Ishida Mitsunari (1559). After him are Toyotomi Hideyori (1593), Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885), Iwane Matsui (1878), Sanada Yukimura (1567), Mitsuru Ushijima (1887), and Nogi Maresuke (1849).

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