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Yasuhiro Nakasone

1918 - 2019

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Yasuhiro Nakasone (中曽根 康弘, Nakasone Yasuhiro; 27 May 1918 – 29 November 2019) was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1982 to 1987. His political term was best known for pushing through the privatization of state-owned companies and pursuing a hawkish and pro-U.S. foreign policy. Born in Gunma Prefecture, Nakasone graduated from Tokyo Imperial University and served in the imperial navy during the Pacific War. After the war, he entered the National Diet in 1947 and rose through the ranks of the Liberal Democratic Party, serving as chief of the Defense Agency from 1970 to 1971 under Eisaku Satō, international trade and industry minister from 1972 to 1974 under Kakuei Tanaka, and administration minister from 1980 to 1982 under Zenkō Suzuki. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yasuhiro Nakasone is the 3,699th most popular politician (down from 3,316th in 2019), the 194th most popular biography from Japan (down from 171st in 2019) and the 65th most popular Japanese Politician.

Yasuhiro Nakasone was the Prime Minister of Japan from 1982 to 1987. He is most famous for his economic reforms that helped Japan get out of a recession.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yasuhiro Nakasone ranks 3,699 out of 19,576. Before him are Maria Teresa of Savoy, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, Cleomenes III, Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau, Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, and Hans-Dietrich Genscher. After him are William of Villehardouin, Al-Muazzam Turanshah, Al-Mutawakkil III, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, Gyges of Lydia, and Artur Rasizade.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Yasuhiro Nakasone ranks 51. Before him are Kenichi Fukui, Edward B. Lewis, Betty Ford, Maurice Druon, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, and Birgit Nilsson. After him are François Tombalbaye, Hans Scholl, Pavlik Morozov, Robert Walker, André Bazin, and Lila Kedrova. Among people deceased in 2019, Yasuhiro Nakasone ranks 56. Before him are Giya Kancheli, Roger Etchegaray, John Tate, John Robert Schrieffer, Ágnes Heller, and Lennart Johansson. After him are Godfried Danneels, Sigmund Jähn, Ferdinand Piëch, Fernando de la Rúa, Zhores Alferov, and Kary Mullis.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yasuhiro Nakasone ranks 194 out of 6,245. Before him are Tomohiko Ikoma (1932), Ken Watanabe (1959), Utamaro (1753), Yoshimatsu Oyama (null), Akio Morita (1921), and Akira Kitaguchi (1935). After him are Hirokazu Ninomiya (1917), Takeshi Inoue (1928), Kunitaka Sueoka (1917), Junji Kawano (1945), Takeo Wakabayashi (1907), and Susumu Tonegawa (1939).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Yasuhiro Nakasone ranks 65. Before him are Fujiko Fujio (1934), Fumimaro Konoe (1891), Emperor Kōgen (-272), Emperor Tenji (626), Yukio Hatoyama (1947), and Emperor Ōjin (210). After him are Emperor Richū (336), Emperor Kaika (-208), Ashikaga Yoshiaki (1537), Imagawa Yoshimoto (1519), Taira no Kiyomori (1118), and Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (1646).

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