MILITARY PERSONNEL

Mutsuhiro Watanabe

1918 - 2003

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Sergeant Mutsuhiro Watanabe (渡邊睦裕, Watanabe Mutsuhiro; 18 January 1918 – 1 April 2003), nicknamed "the Bird" by his prisoners, was a Japanese soldier who served in several prisoner-of-war camps during World War II. Infamous for his mistreatment of Allied prisoners of war, after the surrender of Japan in 1945 American occupational authorities classified Watanabe as a war criminal for his mistreatment and torture of POWs, but he managed to elude arrest and was never tried in court. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mutsuhiro Watanabe is the 1,611th most popular military personnel (up from 1,704th in 2019), the 1,133rd most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,165th in 2019) and the 85th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Mutsuhiro Watanabe ranks 1,611 out of 2,058. Before him are Alan Cunningham, Stanley Maude, Pedro Teixeira, Richmond K. Turner, Aliagha Shikhlinski, and Edward Braddock. After him are Andrew Scott Waugh, Georgi Todorov, Sidney Smith, Henry Halleck, Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset, and Gerhard von Schwerin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Mutsuhiro Watanabe ranks 184. Before him are San Yu, Hank Jones, Zakaria Mohieddin, Eric Ericson, Ted Post, and Yevgeniya Sechenova. After him are Margaret Osborne duPont, Alfred Bickel, Anatoly Tarasov, Edward Van Dijck, Otis Bowen, and Cameron Mitchell. Among people deceased in 2003, Mutsuhiro Watanabe ranks 207. Before him are Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Fedora Barbieri, Lev Kerbel, Giorgio Gaber, Piet Dankert, and Naftali Temu. After him are Althea Gibson, Olle Anderberg, Vladimír Vašíček, Tomáš Pospíchal, Lewis A. Coser, and Hal Clement.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Mutsuhiro Watanabe ranks 1,133 out of 6,245. Before him are Masayoshi Ito (1913), Hiroki Iizuka (1978), Susumu Hirasawa (1954), Minoru Chiaki (1917), Ikuo Matsumoto (1941), and Yoshiro Nakamatsu (1928). After him are Shinichi Hoshi (1926), Kiyoshi Atsumi (1928), Masato Kudo (1990), Sumio Iijima (1939), Tsubouchi Shōyō (1859), and Yasuji Miyazaki (1916).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Mutsuhiro Watanabe ranks 85. Before him are Kazuo Sakamaki (1918), Kijirō Nambu (1869), Kuroki Tamemoto (1844), Shōji Nishimura (1889), Kiyonao Ichiki (1892), and Jinichi Kusaka (1888). After him are Itō Sukeyuki (1843), Kiyotake Kawaguchi (1892), Nozu Michitsura (1840), Shirase Nobu (1861), Kiichiro Higuchi (1888), and Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu (1875).

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