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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Yamagata Aritomo

1838 - 1922

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Gensui Prince Yamagata Aritomo (山縣 有朋, 14 June 1838 – 1 February 1922) also known as Prince Yamagata Kyōsuke, was a Japanese statesman and military commander who was twice-elected Prime Minister of Japan, and a leading member of the genrō, an élite group of senior statesmen who dominated Japanese politics after the Meiji Restoration. 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. For this reason, some historians consider Yamagata to be the “father” of Japanese militarism.During the latter part of the Meiji Era, Yamagata vied against Marquess Itō Hirobumi for control over the nation's policies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yamagata Aritomo has received more than 460,796 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Yamagata Aritomo is the 338th most popular military personnel (down from 312th in 2019), the 130th most popular biography from Japan (down from 110th in 2019) and the 20th 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 338 out of 1,468Before him are Sanada Yukimura, Hugo Sperrle, Shoichi Yokoi, Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, Friedrich Dollmann, and Titus Labienus. After him are Giovanni Messe, Polyperchon, Baiju, Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, Italo Gariboldi, and Albert Pike.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Yamagata Aritomo ranks 14Before him are Luís I of Portugal, Jan Matejko, Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, Ernest Solvay, Émile Loubet, and Léon Gambetta. After him are Princess Louise of Prussia, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Liliʻuokalani, Ōkuma Shigenobu, and Camille Jordan. Among people deceased in 1922, Yamagata Aritomo ranks 20Before him are Georges Sorel, Vittorio Monti, Ernest Solvay, Michael Collins, Nellie Bly, and Walther Rathenau. After him are Henri Désiré Landru, Andrey Markov, Rudolf Kjellén, Alessandro Moreschi, Léon Bonnat, and Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yamagata Aritomo ranks 130 out of 6,048Before him are Isamu Akasaki (1929), Jiro Horikoshi (1903), Iwane Matsui (1878), Sanada Yukimura (1567), Shoichi Yokoi (1915), and Momofuku Ando (1910). After him are Issei Sagawa (1949), Sakichi Toyoda (1867), Emperor Suinin (-69), Junko Tabei (1939), Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906), and Taira no Kiyomori (1118).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Yamagata Aritomo ranks 20Before him are Ishida Mitsunari (1559), Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885), Toyotomi Hideyori (1593), Iwane Matsui (1878), Sanada Yukimura (1567), and Shoichi Yokoi (1915). After him are Mitsuo Fuchida (1902), Honda Tadakatsu (1548), Mitsuru Ushijima (1887), Kawakami Gensai (1834), Saburō Sakai (1916), and Okita Sōji (1842).