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Shūmei Ōkawa

1886 - 1957

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Shūmei Ōkawa (大川 周明, Ōkawa Shūmei; 6 December 1886 – 24 December 1957) was a Japanese nationalist and Pan-Asianist writer, known for his publications on Japanese history, philosophy of religion, Indian philosophy, and colonialism. Ōkawa advocated a form of Pan-Asianism which promoted Asian solidarity as a cover for Japanese imperialism and beliefs in Japanese racial supremacy. He co-founded the Japanese radical nationalist group Yūzonsha, and in 1926 he published his most influential work: Japan and the Way of the Japanese (Nihon oyobi Nihonjin no michi), which was so popular that it would be reprinted 46 times by the end of World War II. Ōkawa was also involved in a number of attempted coups d'état by the Japanese military, including the March Incident. After his arrest following the March incident, Ōkawa was protected by the intervention of General Kazushige Ugaki, and received a sentence of five years in prison, of which he served two years. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Shūmei Ōkawa is the 810th most popular military personnel (up from 864th in 2019), the 628th most popular biography from Japan (down from 605th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Shūmei Ōkawa ranks 810 out of 2,058. Before him are Hiroshi Ōshima, Ernst Linder, Wilhelm Souchon, Otto Kittel, Demosthenes, and Barthélemy Catherine Joubert. After him are Fakhri Pasha, Karel Doorman, Ling Tong, John Sullivan, Nikolai Ogarkov, and Oda Nobutaka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Shūmei Ōkawa ranks 80. Before him are Franz Josef Popp, Olaf Stapledon, Taimur bin Feisal, Nikolay Gumilyov, Hiroshi Ōshima, and Tarsila do Amaral. After him are Edwin Fischer, Hugh Lofting, Rudolf Schmidt, Ğabdulla Tuqay, Frederic Bartlett, and Henry H. Arnold. Among people deceased in 1957, Shūmei Ōkawa ranks 76. Before him are Theodor Körner, James Brendan Connolly, Eugenio Castellotti, Jack Butler Yeats, Soemu Toyoda, and Josef Lada. After him are Álvaro Gestido, Rudolf Schmidt, Dorothy L. Sayers, Pedro Infante, Josef Hofmann, and Washington Luís.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shūmei Ōkawa ranks 628 out of 6,245. Before him are Ken Naganuma (1930), Takenoshin Nakai (1882), Kijūrō Shidehara (1872), Shotaro Ishinomori (1938), Takeo Miki (1907), and Korechika Anami (1887). After him are Ukita Hideie (1573), Yoshida Shōin (1830), Takayuki Kuwata (1941), Kisho Kurokawa (1934), Yoshitoshi (1839), and Shunryū Suzuki (1904).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Shūmei Ōkawa ranks 52. Before him are Yasuji Okamura (1884), Otozō Yamada (1881), George W. Casey Jr. (1948), Takeo Takagi (1892), Soemu Toyoda (1885), and Hiroshi Ōshima (1886). After him are Minamoto no Yorimasa (1106), Minamoto no Yoshitomo (1123), Ōtani Yoshitsugu (1559), Gunichi Mikawa (1888), Osami Nagano (1880), and Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (1920).

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