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Ryōtarō Shiba

1923 - 1996

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Teiichi Fukuda (福田 定一; August 7, 1923 – February 12, 1996), also known as Ryōtarō Shiba (司馬 遼太郎), was a Japanese author. He is best known for his novels about historical events in Japan and on the Northeast Asian sub-continent, as well as his historical and cultural essays pertaining to Japan and its relationship to the rest of the world. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ryōtarō Shiba is the 3,757th most popular writer (down from 3,527th in 2019), the 1,069th most popular biography from Japan (down from 991st in 2019) and the 83rd most popular Japanese Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ryōtarō Shiba ranks 3,757 out of 7,302. Before him are Cotton Mather, Vitsentzos Kornaros, Mikheil Javakhishvili, André Aciman, Peter Cheyney, and Ella Maillart. After him are Charles Malik, Douglas Preston, Joseph Joffo, Louis Adamic, Bret Easton Ellis, and Salma Khadra Jayyusi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Ryōtarō Shiba ranks 222. Before him are Vladimir Basov, Fatmawati, Loriot, Ida Vitale, Galyani Vadhana, and Juan Burgueño. After him are Octavio Lepage, Rentarō Mikuni, V. C. Andrews, Juan Arza, Patrick Hillery, and Karl Vaino. Among people deceased in 1996, Ryōtarō Shiba ranks 161. Before him are Imre Kovács, Teodoro Fernández, Endel Puusepp, Michel Pablo, Joseph Mermans, and Charles Jewtraw. After him are Cao Yu, Reinhard Libuda, Yaki Kadafi, Laurens van der Post, Heriberto Herrera, and Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ryōtarō Shiba ranks 1,069 out of 6,245. Before him are Noriko Ohara (1935), Shigefumi Mori (1951), Uemura Shōen (1875), Koji Tanaka (1955), Mitsuru Komaeda (1950), and Tetsuya Chiba (1939). After him are Hiroyuki Sakashita (1959), Abe Masahiro (1819), Rentarō Mikuni (1923), Edwin O. Reischauer (1910), Hiroshi Ochiai (1946), and Morihiro Saito (1928).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Ryōtarō Shiba ranks 83. Before him are Ai Yazawa (1967), Futabatei Shimei (1864), Tōson Shimazaki (1872), Doppo Kunikida (1871), Ozaki Kōyō (1868), and Takeo Arishima (1878). After him are Shuntarō Tanikawa (1931), Shinichi Hoshi (1926), Tsubouchi Shōyō (1859), Misuzu Kaneko (1903), Masuji Ibuse (1898), and Hiratsuka Raichō (1886).

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