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Tanaka Hisashige

1799 - 1881

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Hisashige Tanaka (田中 久重; October 16, 1799 – November 7, 1881) was a Japanese businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and rangaku scholar who was prominent during the Bakumatsu and early Meiji period in Japan. In 1875, he founded what became the Toshiba Corporation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tanaka Hisashige is the 387th most popular businessperson (down from 373rd in 2019), the 982nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 964th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Japanese Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Tanaka Hisashige ranks 387 out of 847. Before him are Henry E. Steinway, Thierry Breton, Paul Sacher, Douglas Tompkins, Norio Ohga, and Satya Nadella. After him are Oleg Deripaska, Tatsumi Kimishima, Sylvia Beach, Mikhail Fridman, Thomas Blake Glover, and Silvio Santos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Tanaka Hisashige ranks 33. Before him are Countess of Ségur, Ludwig Rellstab, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, Jedediah Smith, Ferdinand Reich, and Henri Druey. After him are François-Auguste Biard, Jean Baptiste Boisduval, Duchess Marie of Württemberg, Manuel Bulnes, Imre Frivaldszky, and Alexander Petrov. Among people deceased in 1881, Tanaka Hisashige ranks 59. Before him are Jim Bridger, Karl Christian Bruhns, Konstantin Thon, Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, Countess Franziska Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau, and August Šenoa. After him are Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys, Jane Digby, Robert Mallet, Ercole Dembowski, Mary Seacole, and Andrei Zhelyabov.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tanaka Hisashige ranks 982 out of 6,245. Before him are Katsuko Saruhashi (1920), Shunichiro Okano (1931), Norio Ohga (1930), Hiroshi Nakajima (1928), Ango Sakaguchi (1906), and Mitsuo Tsukahara (1947). After him are Katō Tomosaburō (1861), Kirin Kiki (1943), Keisuke Kinoshita (1912), Kafū Nagai (1879), Naomi Osaka (1997), and Keiichi Tsuchiya (1956).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Japan

Among businesspeople born in Japan, Tanaka Hisashige ranks 15. Before him are Shibusawa Eiichi (1840), Eiji Toyoda (1913), Mineko Iwasaki (1949), Tadashi Yanai (1949), Akio Toyoda (1956), and Norio Ohga (1930). After him are Tatsumi Kimishima (1950), Mikimoto Kōkichi (1858), Masaji Kiyokawa (1913), Hiro Matsushita (1961), Shuntaro Furukawa (1972), and Maki Kaji (1951).

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