MILITARY PERSONNEL

Yoshijirō Umezu

1882 - 1949

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Yoshijirō Umezu (梅津 美治郎, Umezu Yoshijirō) (January 4, 1882 – January 8, 1949) was a Japanese general in World War II and Chief of the Army General Staff during the final years of the conflict. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yoshijirō Umezu has received more than 351,388 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Yoshijirō Umezu is the 654th most popular military personnel (up from 677th in 2019), the 418th most popular biography from Japan (down from 416th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Yoshijirō Umezus by language

Over the past year Yoshijirō Umezu has had the most page views in the with 86,952 views, followed by English (71,982), and Chinese (26,321). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Persian (259.12%), Afrikaans (91.82%), and Egyptian Arabic (41.38%)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Yoshijirō Umezu ranks 654 out of 2,058. Before him are Sadao Araki, Markian Popov, Jarosław Dąbrowski, Jang Bogo, Wilhelm Rediess, and Casimir Pulaski. After him are Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Gustav Horn, Count of Pori, Hua Xiong, Charles Huntziger, Pang De, and Maurice Sarrail.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Yoshijirō Umezu ranks 81. Before him are Leopold Stokowski, Harold Lowe, Natalia Sedova, Feng Yuxiang, Ernst von Weizsäcker, and August Kopff. After him are Eugène Joseph Delporte, William Halsey Jr., Princess Louise of Orléans, Sylvia Pankhurst, Artur Schnabel, and John Barrymore. Among people deceased in 1949, Yoshijirō Umezu ranks 43. Before him are Valentino Mazzola, Béla Balázs, Ulrich Salchow, Joaquín Turina, Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, and Harry Stack Sullivan. After him are André-Louis Debierne, Leonard Bloomfield, Maurice Blondel, Hanns Albin Rauter, Prince Harald of Denmark, and Hans Pfitzner.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoshijirō Umezu ranks 418 out of 6,245. Before him are Sadao Araki (1877), Michiyo Taki (null), Yoshihiro Togashi (1966), Tasuku Honjo (1942), Masuzo Madono (null), and Makoto Shinkai (1973). After him are Emperor Go-Reizei (1025), Ii Naomasa (1561), Hirohiko Araki (1960), Emperor Daigo (885), Mōri Terumoto (1533), and Gunpei Yokoi (1941).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Yoshijirō Umezu ranks 39. Before him are Saburō Sakai (1916), Kenji Doihara (1883), Taira no Masakado (903), Takeichi Nishi (1902), Hisaichi Terauchi (1879), and Sadao Araki (1877). After him are Takijirō Ōnishi (1891), Nobutake Kondō (1886), Takeo Kurita (1889), Soemu Toyoda (1885), Yasuji Okamura (1884), and Minamoto no Yorimasa (1106).

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