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Matsukata Masayoshi

1835 - 1924

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Prince Matsukata Masayoshi (松方 正義; 25 February 1835 – 2 July 1924) was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1891 to 1892, and from 1896 to 1898. Born in the Satsuma Domain to a samurai family, Matsukata served as finance minister for 15 of the 20 years between 1881 and 1901, led the creation of the Bank of Japan in 1882, and had significant influence in the financial and economic articles of the Meiji Constitution of 1889. He became a genrō, or senior statesman who dictated policy in the later Meiji era, and was given the title of prince in 1922. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Matsukata Masayoshi is the 8,185th most popular politician (down from 6,350th in 2019), the 696th most popular biography from Japan (down from 477th in 2019) and the 241st most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Matsukata Masayoshi ranks 8,185 out of 19,576. Before him are Marquess of Beixiang, Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence, Shutruk-Nakhunte, Mojmir II of Moravia, Richard Mentor Johnson, and Ewa Kopacz. After him are Marcus Aemilius Scaurus, Dinmukhamed Kunaev, Emperor Sukō, Władysław III Spindleshanks, Nikolay Chkheidze, and Derviş Eroğlu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Matsukata Masayoshi ranks 38. Before him are Shoqan Walikhanov, Simon Newcomb, Iwasaki Yatarō, Tomás Estrada Palma, Eugenio Beltrami, and Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. After him are Émile Combes, Paul Du Chaillu, Germanus V of Constantinople, Matthías Jochumsson, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke, and Christian Otto Mohr. Among people deceased in 1924, Matsukata Masayoshi ranks 43. Before him are Théodore Dubois, Valery Bryusov, Jacques de Morgan, Roland Bonaparte, Hermann Kövess von Kövessháza, and Aleksa Šantić. After him are Louis Delluc, Eugenius Warming, Joseph Henry Blackburne, F. H. Bradley, Florence Harding, and Dimitar Blagoev.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Matsukata Masayoshi ranks 696 out of 6,245. Before him are Hideo Sakai (1909), Masaki Yokotani (1952), Yoshihiro Togashi (1966), Kōdō Sawaki (1880), Hiroji Imamura (1949), and Shibusawa Eiichi (1840). After him are Shigeko Higashikuni (1925), Emperor Sanjō (976), Yoshida Kenkō (1283), Ōtani Yoshitsugu (1559), Gunichi Mikawa (1888), and Hōjō Sōun (1432).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Matsukata Masayoshi ranks 241. Before him are Shigechiyo Izumi (1865), Emperor En'yū (959), Shintaro Ishihara (1932), Minamoto no Yoriie (1182), Chōsokabe Motochika (1539), and Yuriko Koike (1952). After him are Emperor Sanjō (976), Hōjō Sōun (1432), Nitobe Inazō (1862), Ii Naosuke (1815), Shō Shin (1465), and Emperor Shijō (1231).

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