MILITARY PERSONNEL

Yasuji Okamura

1884 - 1966

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Yasuji Okamura (岡村 寧次, Okamura Yasuji, 15 May 1884 – 2 September 1966) was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, and commander-in-chief of the China Expeditionary Army from November 1944 to the end of World War II. He was tried but found not guilty of any war crimes by the Shanghai War Crimes Tribunal after the war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yasuji Okamura has received more than 249,072 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Yasuji Okamura is the 719th most popular military personnel (down from 703rd in 2019), the 492nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 447th in 2019) and the 44th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

Memorability Metrics

  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Yasuji Okamura has had the most page views in the with 43,294 views, followed by Japanese (37,584), and English (36,391). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (68.75%), Portuguese (52.79%), and Afrikaans (52.63%)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Yasuji Okamura ranks 719 out of 2,058. Before him are Peithon, Inés Suárez, Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este, Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, Soemu Toyoda, and Ivan Bohun. After him are Giovanni Andrea Doria, Jules Brunet, Sergey Akhromeyev, Otto Kittel, Wild Bill Hickok, and Nikolay Voronov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Yasuji Okamura ranks 61. Before him are Clark L. Hull, Henri Cornet, Georges Duhamel, Drastamat Kanayan, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, and Gaston Aumoitte. After him are Alexander Belyaev, Wilhelm Backhaus, Joseph Boxhall, Félix Gouin, Eugène Tisserant, and Ivan Maisky. Among people deceased in 1966, Yasuji Okamura ranks 60. Before him are Demchugdongrub, Wäinö Aaltonen, Bai Chongxi, Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, Margaret Sanger, and Hendrik Verwoerd. After him are Gustavo Marzi, Edward Gordon Craig, Homi J. Bhabha, Amédée Ozenfant, Fritz Wunderlich, and Edmond Locard.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yasuji Okamura ranks 492 out of 6,245. Before him are Miki Matsubara (1959), Satoru Iwata (1959), Soemu Toyoda (1885), Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu (1902), Hajime Sugiyama (1880), and Hifuyo Uchida (null). After him are Nobuo Matsunaga (1921), Mitsumasa Yonai (1880), Junji Kawano (1945), Yasuyuki Kuwahara (1942), Masao Ono (1923), and Emperor Kameyama (1249).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Yasuji Okamura ranks 44. Before him are Sadao Araki (1877), Yoshijirō Umezu (1882), Takijirō Ōnishi (1891), Nobutake Kondō (1886), Takeo Kurita (1889), and Soemu Toyoda (1885). After him are Minamoto no Yorimasa (1106), Osami Nagano (1880), Wakisaka Yasuharu (1554), Otozō Yamada (1881), Seiichi Itō (1890), and Minamoto no Yoshitomo (1123).

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