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Yasuhiro Nakasone

1918 - 2019

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Yasuhiro Nakasone (中曽根 康弘, Nakasone Yasuhiro, 27 May 1918 – 29 November 2019) was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party from 1982 to 1987. He was a member of the House of Representatives for more than 50 years. His political term was best known for pushing through the privatization of state-owned companies and pursuing a hawkish and pro-U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yasuhiro Nakasone has received more than 720,058 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Yasuhiro Nakasone is the 3,316th most popular politician (up from 3,384th in 2019), the 171st most popular biography from Japan (down from 164th in 2019) and the 56th most popular Japanese Politician.

Yasuhiro Nakasone was the Prime Minister of Japan from 1982 to 1987. He is most famous for his economic reforms that helped Japan get out of a recession.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yasuhiro Nakasone ranks 3,316 out of 19,576. Before him are Emperor Huan of Han, Al-Muqanna, Hans Lammers, Andrey Bogolyubsky, John Hyrcanus, and Charles III, Prince of Monaco. After him are Oskar Potiorek, Hissène Habré, Ernst Gideon von Laudon, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Istakhri, and Ferdinand, Duke of Parma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Yasuhiro Nakasone ranks 40. Before him are Bertram Brockhouse, Arthur Kornberg, James Tobin, Maurice Druon, Jerome Karle, and Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. After him are Julian Schwinger, Hans Scholl, Patricio Aylwin, Edward B. Lewis, Betty Ford, and Birgit Nilsson. Among people deceased in 2019, Yasuhiro Nakasone ranks 49. Before him are Lennart Johansson, Franco Columbu, Raymond Poulidor, Kary Mullis, Li Peng, and Prem Tinsulanonda. After him are Ágnes Heller, Fernando de la Rúa, Ferdinand Piëch, Sydney Brenner, Moshe Arens, and César Pelli.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yasuhiro Nakasone ranks 171 out of 6,245. Before him are Shohei Imamura (1926), Emperor Kaika (-208), Emperor Tenmu (631), Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Junichiro Koizumi (1942), and Emperor Suinin (-69). After him are Syukuro Manabe (1931), Yasuo Fukuda (1936), Masaki Kobayashi (1916), Masanobu Fukuoka (1913), Arata Isozaki (1931), and Yohji Yamamoto (1943).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Yasuhiro Nakasone ranks 56. Before him are Nobusuke Kishi (1896), Emperor Ōjin (210), Emperor Kaika (-208), Emperor Tenmu (631), Junichiro Koizumi (1942), and Emperor Suinin (-69). After him are Yasuo Fukuda (1936), Imagawa Yoshimoto (1519), Taira no Kiyomori (1118), Emperor Momozono (1741), Emperor Tenji (626), and Katsura Tarō (1848).

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