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Kanji Ishiwara

1889 - 1949

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Kanji Ishiwara (石原 莞爾, Ishiwara Kanji; 18 January 1889 – 15 August 1949) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. He and Seishirō Itagaki were the men primarily responsible for the Mukden Incident that took place in Manchuria in 1931. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kanji Ishiwara is the 1,378th most popular military personnel (down from 1,250th in 2019), the 975th most popular biography from Japan (down from 844th in 2019) and the 78th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Kanji Ishiwara ranks 1,378 out of 2,058. Before him are Brice Oligui Nguema, Andrés Avelino Cáceres, Franz Bäke, Ecaterina Teodoroiu, Akashi Motojiro, and Harukichi Hyakutake. After him are Henri Saint Cyr, Megabyzus, Friedrich Christiansen, Wisimar, Alexey Maresyev, and Avraham Adan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Kanji Ishiwara ranks 146. Before him are Edith Tolkien, Shigeyoshi Inoue, Lord Leopold Mountbatten, Laureano Gómez, Maria Dąbrowska, and Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg. After him are Alexander Vertinsky, Muhammad Jamalul Alam II, Bodil Ipsen, Larry Semon, Robert Z. Leonard, and Ki Hajar Dewantara. Among people deceased in 1949, Kanji Ishiwara ranks 101. Before him are Wallace Beery, Nuri Killigil, Laura Montoya, Nikos Skalkottas, James Forrestal, and Henri Rabaud. After him are Maria Ouspenskaya, René Maire, Walter Short, Nikolay Gamaleya, Jankel Adler, and Fedor Ozep.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kanji Ishiwara ranks 975 out of 6,245. Before him are Keiko Abe (1937), Takashi Umezawa (1972), Ogyū Sorai (1666), Tsutomu Miyazaki (1962), Akashi Motojiro (1864), and Harukichi Hyakutake (1888). After him are Katsuko Saruhashi (1920), Shunichiro Okano (1931), Norio Ohga (1930), Hiroshi Nakajima (1928), Ango Sakaguchi (1906), and Mitsuo Tsukahara (1947).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Kanji Ishiwara ranks 78. Before him are Arima Harunobu (1567), Tomoji Tanabe (1895), Oku Yasukata (1847), Shigeyoshi Inoue (1889), Akashi Motojiro (1864), and Harukichi Hyakutake (1888). After him are Kazuo Sakamaki (1918), Kijirō Nambu (1869), Kuroki Tamemoto (1844), Shōji Nishimura (1889), Kiyonao Ichiki (1892), and Jinichi Kusaka (1888).

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