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Yōsuke Matsuoka

1880 - 1946

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Yōsuke Matsuoka (松岡 洋右, Matsuoka Yōsuke; March 4, 1880 – June 27, 1946) was a Japanese diplomat and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Empire of Japan during the early stages of World War II. He is best known for his defiant speech at the League of Nations in February 1933, ending Japan's participation in the organization. He was also one of the architects of the Tripartite Pact and the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact in the years immediately prior to the outbreak of war. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yōsuke Matsuoka is the 6,943rd most popular politician (down from 6,890th in 2019), the 569th most popular biography from Japan (down from 530th in 2019) and the 198th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yōsuke Matsuoka ranks 6,943 out of 19,576. Before him are Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, Pavel Tsitsianov, Lin Xin, Trần Hưng Đạo, Johannes Steinhoff, and Edvard Eriksen. After him are Lucjan Żeligowski, Francisco de Paula Santander, Gulzarilal Nanda, Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, Jean-Pierre Jabouille, and Quli Qutb Shah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Yōsuke Matsuoka ranks 65. Before him are Elias, Duke of Parma, Alfred Einstein, Hajime Sugiyama, Mikhail Tomsky, Ida Dalser, and Mitsumasa Yonai. After him are Abram Ioffe, Robert Stolz, Jacques Thibaud, Carl Van Vechten, Charles Huntziger, and Vasily Degtyaryov. Among people deceased in 1946, Yōsuke Matsuoka ranks 66. Before him are Hisaichi Terauchi, Alfred Stieglitz, Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Per Albin Hansson, Louis Slotin, and Henry Bergman. After him are Henri Gouraud, Arthur Greiser, Karl Eberhard Schöngarth, Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, Wilhelm Souchon, and Jeanne Lanvin.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yōsuke Matsuoka ranks 569 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Shirakawa (1053), Ashikaga Yoshiteru (1536), Emperor Konoe (1139), Ichiro Hosotani (1946), Mitsumasa Yonai (1880), and Tokutaro Ukon (1913). After him are Yoshio Kikugawa (1944), Hitoshi Ashida (1887), Takeo Kurita (1889), Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), Hidetoshi Nakata (1977), and Yosano Akiko (1878).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Yōsuke Matsuoka ranks 198. Before him are Hajime Sugiyama (1880), Kuroda Kiyotaka (1840), Emperor Shirakawa (1053), Ashikaga Yoshiteru (1536), Emperor Konoe (1139), and Mitsumasa Yonai (1880). After him are Hitoshi Ashida (1887), Ryutaro Hashimoto (1937), Saitō Makoto (1858), Rei Kawakubo (1942), Masayoshi Ōhira (1910), and Tsutomu Hata (1935).

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