SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Ninomiya Sontoku

1787 - 1856

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Ninomiya Sontoku (二宮 尊徳; September 4, 1787 – November 17, 1856), also known as Ninomiya Kinjirō (二宮 金次郎), was a Japanese agriculturalist. He lost his parents when he was a boy, but through hard work and diligence, he rebuilt his fallen family at the age of 20. Later, he rebuilt approximately 600 villages and became a shogunate retainer. His ideas and actions were inherited as the Hōtokusha Movement. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ninomiya Sontoku is the 406th most popular social activist (down from 352nd in 2019), the 1,076th most popular biography from Japan (down from 931st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Ninomiya Sontoku ranks 406 out of 840. Before him are Dhondo Keshav Karve, Meri Mangakāhia, Germaine Tillion, Ram Manohar Lohia, İbrahim Kaypakkaya, and Ivan Bolotnikov. After him are Pattimura, James Guillaume, Marsha P. Johnson, Virginia Bolten, Azucena Villaflor, and Kōtoku Shūsui.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Ninomiya Sontoku ranks 36. Before him are William Etty, Josef Ludwig von Armansperg, Alexander Alyabyev, Ramón Freire, Pellegrino Rossi, and John Richardson. After him are José María Bocanegra, Joaquín Mosquera, Michele Carafa, Thomas Say, Konstantin Batyushkov, and Manuel Dorrego. Among people deceased in 1856, Ninomiya Sontoku ranks 41. Before him are Vicente López y Planes, Lev Perovski, Karel Havlíček Borovský, Agostino Bassi, Henry Pottinger, and Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel. After him are Jovan Sterija Popović, Josef Kajetán Tyl, Johan August Wahlberg, Nicaise Auguste Desvaux, Ivan Kireyevsky, and Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ninomiya Sontoku ranks 1,076 out of 6,245. Before him are Hiroyuki Sakashita (1959), Abe Masahiro (1819), Rentarō Mikuni (1923), Edwin O. Reischauer (1910), Hiroshi Ochiai (1946), and Morihiro Saito (1928). After him are Chieko Baisho (1941), Shiho Kaneda (1965), Toshihiko Okimune (1959), Tomoyuki Tanaka (1910), Ken Ogata (1937), and Kazuo Koike (1936).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Japan

Among social activists born in Japan, Ninomiya Sontoku ranks 7. Before him are Sadako Sasaki (1943), Sakamoto Ryōma (1836), Ishikawa Goemon (1558), Otoya Yamaguchi (1943), Itagaki Taisuke (1837), and Toyohiko Kagawa (1888). After him are Kōtoku Shūsui (1871), Gotō Shōjirō (1838), Ōsugi Sakae (1885), Megumi Yokota (1964), Akira Amano (1973), and Jared Taylor (1951).

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