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Masayoshi Ōhira

1910 - 1980

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Masayoshi Ōhira (大平 正芳, Ōhira Masayoshi; 12 March 1910 – 12 June 1980) was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1978 until his death in 1980. Born in Kagawa Prefecture, Ōhira worked in the Ministry of Finance from 1936, and served as the private secretary to Hayato Ikeda, finance minister from 1949 to 1952. Ōhira was first elected to the Diet in 1952, and served as foreign minister in Ikeda's cabinet from 1962 to 1964 and as international trade and industry minister from 1968 to 1970 under Eisaku Satō. He took over Ikeda's faction of the Liberal Democratic Party and later served as foreign minister from 1972 to 1974 under Kakuei Tanaka and as finance minister from 1974 to 1976 under Takeo Miki. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Masayoshi Ōhira is the 7,042nd most popular politician (up from 7,086th in 2019), the 580th most popular biography from Japan (down from 551st in 2019) and the 203rd most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Masayoshi Ōhira ranks 7,042 out of 19,576. Before him are Julio César Turbay Ayala, Mahaut, Countess of Artois, Sancho IV of Pamplona, Theodore Metochites, Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, and Thomas Gresham. After him are Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein, Charles de Freycinet, Augustinas Voldemaras, Princess Louise Amelie of Baden, Pierre Messmer, and Khentkaus III.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Masayoshi Ōhira ranks 89. Before him are Hideo Shinojima, Viktors Arājs, Rudolf Lange, Eero Saarinen, Paul Bowles, and Chico Xavier. After him are Nguyễn Hữu Thọ, Julien Gracq, Ngô Đình Nhu, He Zizhen, Armen Takhtajan, and Sergey Gorshkov. Among people deceased in 1980, Masayoshi Ōhira ranks 80. Before him are Winifred Wagner, Joy Adamson, Raoul Walsh, V. V. Giri, Elvira de Hidalgo, and Tex Avery. After him are Marie Under, Dietrich von Saucken, Ernst Busch, Ida Kamińska, Marino Marini, and Valko Chervenkov.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masayoshi Ōhira ranks 580 out of 6,245. Before him are Hidetoshi Nakata (1977), Yosano Akiko (1878), Ryutaro Hashimoto (1937), Hideyo Noguchi (1876), Saitō Makoto (1858), and Rei Kawakubo (1942). After him are Tsutomu Hata (1935), Emperor Murakami (926), Shūsaku Endō (1923), Hideaki Anno (1960), Junji Ito (1963), and Satoshi Kon (1963).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Masayoshi Ōhira ranks 203. Before him are Mitsumasa Yonai (1880), Yōsuke Matsuoka (1880), Hitoshi Ashida (1887), Ryutaro Hashimoto (1937), Saitō Makoto (1858), and Rei Kawakubo (1942). After him are Tsutomu Hata (1935), Emperor Murakami (926), Tokugawa Ieyoshi (1793), Emperor Junnin (733), Zenkō Suzuki (1911), and Emperor Chūkyō (1218).

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