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Nitobe Inazō

1862 - 1933

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Nitobe Inazō (新渡戸 稲造; September 1, 1862 – October 15, 1933) was a Japanese agronomist, diplomat, political scientist, politician, and writer. He studied at Sapporo Agricultural College under the influence of its first president William S. Clark and later went to the United States to study agricultural policy. After returning to Japan, he served as a professor at Sapporo Agricultural College, Kyoto Imperial University, and Tokyo Imperial University, and the deputy secretary general of the League of Nations. He also devoted himself to women's education, helping to found the Tsuda Eigaku Juku and serving as the first president of Tokyo Woman's Christian University and president of the Tokyo Women's College of Economics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nitobe Inazō is the 8,304th most popular politician (down from 7,462nd in 2019), the 705th most popular biography from Japan (down from 584th in 2019) and the 244th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Nitobe Inazō ranks 8,304 out of 19,576. Before him are Menkare, Lucile Desmoulins, William IV, Duke of Aquitaine, Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica, Lykourgos, and Gaius Appuleius Diocles. After him are Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, Hayam Wuruk, Ludmilla Tourischeva, Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Vladislav Ardzinba, and Manuel Marulanda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Nitobe Inazō ranks 60. Before him are Léon Boëllmann, Infanta María de la Paz of Spain, Frederick Delius, Maximilian Maria, 7th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Edvard Westermarck, and Arvid Lindman. After him are Robert Reid, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, William Wallace Campbell, Friedrich Meinecke, Vilhelm Bjerknes, and Louis Botha. Among people deceased in 1933, Nitobe Inazō ranks 49. Before him are Henri Duparc, Anagarika Dharmapala, Princess Mathilde of Saxony, Rudolph Lewis, Mary Parker Follett, and Mary Ann Bevan. After him are Haim Arlosoroff, Hermann von François, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Hasan Prishtina, Theodor Lessing, and Robert T. A. Innes.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Nitobe Inazō ranks 705 out of 6,245. Before him are Yoshida Kenkō (1283), Ōtani Yoshitsugu (1559), Gunichi Mikawa (1888), Hōjō Sōun (1432), Toru Iwatani (1955), and Kōzō Okamoto (1947). After him are Toyohiro Akiyama (1942), Osami Nagano (1880), Hōnen (1133), Taro Kagawa (1922), Shusaku Hirasawa (1949), and Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (1920).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Nitobe Inazō ranks 244. Before him are Minamoto no Yoriie (1182), Chōsokabe Motochika (1539), Yuriko Koike (1952), Matsukata Masayoshi (1835), Emperor Sanjō (976), and Hōjō Sōun (1432). After him are Ii Naosuke (1815), Shō Shin (1465), Emperor Shijō (1231), Shō Hashi (1371), Chiang Wei-kuo (1916), and Takahashi Korekiyo (1854).

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