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Prince Kan'in Kotohito

1865 - 1945

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Prince Kan'in Kotohito (閑院宮載仁親王, Kan'in-no-miya Kotohito-shinnō; November 10, 1865 – May 21, 1945) was the sixth head of a cadet branch of the Japanese imperial family, and a career army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff from 1931 to 1940. During his tenure as the Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff, the Imperial Japanese Army committed numerous war crimes against Chinese civilians including the Nanjing Massacre and the systemic use of chemical and bacteriological weapons. Prince Kan'in Kotohito died several months before the end of the Second World War. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Prince Kan'in Kotohito is the 9,319th most popular politician (down from 8,266th in 2019), the 772nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 658th in 2019) and the 257th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Prince Kan'in Kotohito ranks 9,319 out of 19,576. Before him are Anna Vasa of Sweden, Infanta María Teresa of Spain, Dirk II, Count of Holland, Malyuta Skuratov, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos Iunior, and Cunimund. After him are Milan Obrenović II, Prince of Serbia, Mariano Arista, Scott Brown, Hans Delbrück, Jan Tschichold, and Liaquat Ali Khan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Prince Kan'in Kotohito ranks 78. Before him are Hantaro Nagaoka, Said Halim Pasha, Eduardo di Capua, Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, Princess Olga Paley, and Aaron Kosminski. After him are Andrey Sheptytsky, Max Fabiani, Hannah Chaplin, Isaac Israëls, Archibald Leitch, and Max Nettlau. Among people deceased in 1945, Prince Kan'in Kotohito ranks 173. Before him are Helmuth James von Moltke, Paul Giesler, Ludwig Müller, Richard Thomalla, Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, and Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley. After him are Maria Skobtsova, Duy Tân, Jambyl Jabayev, Matome Ugaki, Henri Maspero, and Gerhard Gentzen.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Prince Kan'in Kotohito ranks 772 out of 6,245. Before him are Masateru Akita (1982), Motoori Norinaga (1730), Ashikaga Yoshihisa (1465), Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (662), Daidō Moriyama (1938), and Soga no Umako (551). After him are Satoru Nakajima (1953), Itagaki Taisuke (1837), Kazuyoshi Nakamura (1955), Shigenori Tōgō (1882), Yamada Nagamasa (1590), and Akira Matsunaga (1948).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Prince Kan'in Kotohito ranks 257. Before him are Tanzan Ishibashi (1884), Shintaro Abe (1924), Prince Morikuni (1301), Kujō Yoritsune (1218), Jiro Taniguchi (1947), and Ashikaga Yoshihisa (1465). After him are Shigenori Tōgō (1882), Yamada Nagamasa (1590), Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu (1902), Hiranuma Kiichirō (1867), Ashikaga Yoshinori (1394), and Yamamoto Gonnohyōe (1852).

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