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Nobusuke Kishi

1896 - 1987

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Nobusuke Kishi (岸 信介, Kishi Nobusuke; 13 November 1896 – 7 August 1987) was a Japanese bureaucrat and politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1957 to 1960. He is remembered for his exploitative economic management of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in China in the 1930s, imprisonment as a suspected war criminal following World War II, and provocation of the massive Anpo protests as prime minister, retrospectively receiving the nickname "Monster of the Shōwa era" (昭和の妖怪; Shōwa no yōkai). Kishi was the founder of the Satō–Kishi–Abe dynasty in Japanese politics, with his younger brother Eisaku Satō and his grandson Shinzo Abe both later serving as prime ministers of Japan. Born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Kishi graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1920. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nobusuke Kishi is the 3,263rd most popular politician (down from 3,185th in 2019), the 152nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 162nd in 2019) and the 50th most popular Japanese Politician.

Nobusuke kishi is most famous for being a samurai that was killed by the Tokugawa Shogunate. He was killed because he refused to take an oath of allegiance to the shogunate.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Nobusuke Kishi ranks 3,263 out of 19,576. Before him are Ieng Sary, Otto Ernst Remer, Konrad Henlein, Junichiro Koizumi, Yazdegerd II, and Gebre Mesqel Lalibela. After him are Regalianus, Elio Di Rupo, Günter Schabowski, Wang Xizhi, Gudrun Burwitz, and Biligtü Khan Ayushiridara.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Nobusuke Kishi ranks 43. Before him are Célestin Freinet, Wallace Carothers, Anastasio Somoza García, Lewis Strauss, John Dos Passos, and Italo Balbo. After him are Nikolay Semyonov, Paulino Alcántara, Rolf Maximilian Sievert, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Herbert Backe, and Helen of Greece and Denmark. Among people deceased in 1987, Nobusuke Kishi ranks 29. Before him are Lino Ventura, Lawrence Kohlberg, John Huston, Lee Marvin, Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover, and Jean Anouilh. After him are Andrés Segovia, Joseph Campbell, Luis Federico Leloir, Anthony de Mello, Didier Pironi, and André Masson.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Nobusuke Kishi ranks 152 out of 6,245. Before him are Sonny Chiba (1939), Emperor Kōrei (-341), Tarō Asō (1940), Abe no Seimei (921), Junichiro Koizumi (1942), and Kunishige Kamamoto (1944). After him are Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835), Yasuo Takamori (1934), Sen no Rikyū (1522), Shoichi Nishimura (1912), Ashikaga Takauji (1305), and Masao Uchino (1934).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Nobusuke Kishi ranks 50. Before him are Emperor Go-Kōmyō (1633), Tokugawa Iemitsu (1604), Shigeru Yoshida (1878), Emperor Kōrei (-341), Tarō Asō (1940), and Junichiro Koizumi (1942). After him are Ashikaga Takauji (1305), Emperor Go-Sai (1638), Empress Genshō (680), Emperor Sujin (-147), Issey Miyake (1938), and Kuniaki Koiso (1880).

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