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Yasuji Okamura

1884 - 1966

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Yasuji Okamura (岡村 寧次, Okamura Yasuji; 15 May 1884 – 2 September 1966) was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, commander-in-chief of the China Expeditionary Army from November 1944 to the end of World War II, and appointed to surrender all Japanese forces involved in the China Burma India theater. He was tried but found not guilty of any war crimes by the Shanghai War Crimes Tribunal after the war. As one of the Imperial Japanese Army's top China experts, General Okamura spent his entire military career on the Asian mainland. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yasuji Okamura is the 762nd most popular military personnel (down from 719th in 2019), the 589th most popular biography from Japan (down from 492nd in 2019) and the 46th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Yasuji Okamura ranks 762 out of 2,058. Before him are Julius von Payer, Pavel Sudoplatov, Giovanni Andrea Doria, Dietrich von Saucken, Henri Gouraud, and Marcantonio Colonna. After him are Ion Mihai Pacepa, Wolfgang Lüth, Karol Świerczewski, Erich Brandenberger, Heinz Hitler, and Ottavio Piccolomini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Yasuji Okamura ranks 59. Before him are Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Wilhelm Backhaus, Félix Gouin, Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh, Henri Cornet, and Prince Adalbert of Prussia. After him are Drastamat Kanayan, Corrado Gini, Georges Duhamel, Rómulo Gallegos, Georg Lindemann, and Jean Paulhan. Among people deceased in 1966, Yasuji Okamura ranks 60. Before him are Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Marguerite Long, Sadao Araki, Demchugdongrub, Hendrik Verwoerd, and Caterina Albert. After him are Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, Vladimir Minorsky, Victor Brauner, Bai Chongxi, Georges Duhamel, and Mir Sultan Khan.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yasuji Okamura ranks 589 out of 6,245. Before him are Shūsaku Endō (1923), Hideaki Anno (1960), Junji Ito (1963), Satoshi Kon (1963), Miho Kaneda (1950), and Saichō (767). After him are Shinran (1173), Katsu Kaishū (1823), Satoru Iwata (1959), Tokugawa Ieyoshi (1793), Otozō Yamada (1881), and Emperor Junnin (733).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Yasuji Okamura ranks 46. Before him are Sadao Araki (1877), Shibata Katsuie (1522), Taira no Masakado (903), Nobutake Kondō (1886), Seiichi Itō (1890), and Takeo Kurita (1889). After him are Otozō Yamada (1881), George W. Casey Jr. (1948), Takeo Takagi (1892), Soemu Toyoda (1885), Hiroshi Ōshima (1886), and Shūmei Ōkawa (1886).

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