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Hajime Sugiyama

1880 - 1945

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Hajime Sugiyama (杉山 元, Sugiyama Hajime / Sugiyama Gen; January 1, 1880 – September 12, 1945) was a Japanese field marshal and one of Japan's military leaders for most of the Second World War. As Army Minister in 1937, Sugiyama was a driving force behind the launch of hostilities against China in retaliation for the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. After being named the Army’s Chief of Staff in 1940, he became a leading advocate for expansion into Southeast Asia and preventive war against the United States. Upon the outbreak of hostilities in the Pacific theater of World War II, Sugiyama served as the army’s de facto commander-in-chief until his removal by Prime Minister Hideki Tojo in February 1944. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hajime Sugiyama is the 6,774th most popular politician (down from 6,481st in 2019), the 557th most popular biography from Japan (down from 490th in 2019) and the 192nd most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hajime Sugiyama ranks 6,774 out of 19,576. Before him are Maria Komnene, Dan Quayle, Herennia Etruscilla, Hussein Arnous, Rudolf Lange, and Stanisław Koniecpolski. After him are Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria, Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, Leo I of Galicia, Ante Starčević, Cleph, and Marie Anne de Mailly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Hajime Sugiyama ranks 61. Before him are Nikolaj Velimirović, Jan Kubelík, Margherita Sarfatti, Grock, Elias, Duke of Parma, and Alfred Einstein. After him are Mikhail Tomsky, Ida Dalser, Mitsumasa Yonai, Yōsuke Matsuoka, Abram Ioffe, and Robert Stolz. Among people deceased in 1945, Hajime Sugiyama ranks 123. Before him are Robert Brasillach, Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, Robert Desnos, August Hirt, Le Pétomane, and Rudolf Lange. After him are Seiichi Itō, Leonid Pasternak, Werner Ostendorff, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., André Tardieu, and Paul Pelliot.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hajime Sugiyama ranks 557 out of 6,245. Before him are Takahito, Prince Mikasa (1915), Taira no Masakado (903), Emperor Ichijō (980), Akiyuki Nosaka (1930), Tokugawa Ieshige (1712), and Ryozo Suzuki (1939). After him are Ryū Murakami (1952), Kuroda Kiyotaka (1840), Ryuzo Hiraki (1931), Nobutake Kondō (1886), Seiichi Itō (1890), and Emperor Shirakawa (1053).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Hajime Sugiyama ranks 192. Before him are Tokugawa Ieharu (1737), Ōyama Iwao (1842), Empress Masako (1963), Takahito, Prince Mikasa (1915), Emperor Ichijō (980), and Tokugawa Ieshige (1712). After him are Kuroda Kiyotaka (1840), Emperor Shirakawa (1053), Ashikaga Yoshiteru (1536), Emperor Konoe (1139), Mitsumasa Yonai (1880), and Yōsuke Matsuoka (1880).

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