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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 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Yasuji Okamura is the 703rd most popular military personnel (up from 724th in 2019), the 449th most popular biography from Japan (up from 544th in 2019) and the 44th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Yasuji Okamura ranks 703 out of 1,468Before him are Won Gyun, Frank Jack Fletcher, Georges Guynemer, Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, Pavel Sudoplatov, and Paul Revere. After him are Yigael Yadin, David Elazar, Peithon, Doc Holliday, Soemu Toyoda, and Archduke Stephen, Palatine of Hungary.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Yasuji Okamura ranks 62Before him are Wilhelm Backhaus, Johan Laidoner, Eugène Tisserant, Drastamat Kanayan, Alexander Belyaev, and Halide Edib Adıvar. After him are Félix Gouin, Maxwell Perkins, Claude Dornier, Henri Cornet, Anna Vyrubova, and Joseph Boxhall. Among people deceased in 1966, Yasuji Okamura ranks 59Before him are Edward Gordon Craig, Evelyn Waugh, Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Georges Duhamel, Demchugdongrub, and Sadao Araki. After him are Charles Whitman, Wäinö Aaltonen, Marguerite Long, Hendrik Verwoerd, Bud Powell, and Amédée Ozenfant.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yasuji Okamura ranks 449 out of 6,048Before him are Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653), Shiro Misaki (null), Kinji Fukasaku (1930), Ashikaga Yoshiteru (1536), Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (1920), and Rei Kawakubo (1942). After him are Emperor Go-Horikawa (1212), Emperor Jomei (593), Emperor Kōkō (830), Emperor Go-Reizei (1025), Kōichirō Matsuura (1937), and Fumihiko Maki (1928).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Yasuji Okamura ranks 44Before him are Takijirō Ōnishi (1891), Otozō Yamada (1881), Sadao Araki (1877), Takeo Kurita (1889), Yoshijirō Umezu (1882), and Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (1920). After him are Soemu Toyoda (1885), Minamoto no Yoshitomo (1123), Taira no Masakado (903), Seiichi Itō (1890), Gunichi Mikawa (1888), and Sakanoue no Tamuramaro (758).