Famous People of Japan
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Famous People Born in Before 1880

Before 1880: 809 people

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Hiraide Shū (平出 修; 3 April 1878 – 17 March 1914) was a novelist, poet, and lawyer in late Meiji period Japan. As a…

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Tadahiko Okada

岡田忠彦
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Tadahiko Okada (岡田 忠彦, Okada Tadahiko; 21 March 1878 – 30 October 1958) was a Japanese politician. He was governor of…

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Umegatani Tōtarō II

梅ヶ谷藤太郎 (2代)
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Umegatani Tōtarō II (梅ヶ谷 藤太郎; March 11, 1878 – September 2, 1927) was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Toyama…

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Vice Admiral Baron Yuzuru Hiraga (平賀 譲, Hiraga Yuzuru; March 8, 1878 – February 17, 1943) was a career naval officer in…

Takeo Arishima (有島 武郎, Arishima Takeo; March 4, 1878 – June 9, 1923) was a Japanese novelist, short-story writer and…

Teiichi Okano (Japanese: 岡野貞一 Okano Teiichi; 16 February 1878, Tottori, Tottori, Japan – 29 December 1941) was a…

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Katayama Hiroko (片山広子 born 10 February 1878 in Tokyo, died 19 March 1957) was a Japanese poet and translator. She did…

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Sakuzō Yoshino (吉野 作造, Yoshino Sakuzō; January 29, 1878 – March 18, 1933) was a Japanese academic, historian, author…

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Sadaji Itō

伊藤貞次
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Sadaji Itō (17 January 1878 – 1943) was a Japanese politician who served as Mayor of the City of Hiroshima from May…

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Otake Chikuha

尾竹竹坡
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Otake Chikuha (尾竹 竹坡; January 11, 1878 – June 2, 1936) was a Japanese painter. He was first known for his nihonga and…

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Tokugoro Ito

伊藤徳五郎
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Tokugoro Ito (1878-January 22, 1939) was a Japanese judoka and professional wrestler. Ito was one of the founding…

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Iwahiko Tsumanuma

妻沼岩彦
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Iwahiko Tsumanuma, a.k.a. Thomas S. Rockrise, A.I.A., (1878 – February 5, 1936) was one of the earliest Japanese…

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Hirafuku Hyakusui, originally named Teizō (Japanese: 平福 百穂; 28 December 1877, Kakunodate - 30 October 1933, Kakunodate)…

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Shinjiro Yamamoto

山本信次郎
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Shinjiro Yamamoto (山本信次郎; 22 December 1877 – 28 February 1942) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy. He is…

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Kichisaburō Nomura (野村 吉三郎, Nomura Kichisaburō; December 16, 1877 – May 8, 1964) was an admiral in the Imperial…

Jōji Matsumoto (松本烝治, Matsumoto Jōji; 14 October 1877 – 8 October 1954) was a legal scholar, politician and cabinet…

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Seihaku Irako

伊良子清白
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Seihaku Irako (伊良子清白, Irako Seihaku; 1877–1946) was a Japanese physician and poet, known mainly for his poems in the…

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Admiral Seizō Kobayashi (Japanese: 小林 躋造, Hepburn: Kobayashi Seizō; 1 October 1877 – 4 July 1962) was a Japanese naval…

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Shiro Asano

浅野四郎
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Shiro Asano (浅野四郎, 1877–1955) was a cameraman during the early days of Japanese cinema. He is known primarily for his…

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Takuo Godō

伍堂卓雄
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Takuo Godō (伍堂 卓雄, Godō Takuo; 23 September 1877 – 7 April 1956) was a naval architect, vice admiral in the Imperial…

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Naohide Yatsu

谷津直秀
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Naohide Yatsu (September 8, 1877 – October 2, 1947) was a Japanese biologist, geneticist, and embryologist. Yatsu…

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Tachiyama Mineemon

太刀山峯右エ門
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Tachiyama Mineemon (Japanese: 太刀山 峯右衞門; August 15, 1877 – April 3, 1941) was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from…

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Kawai Michi

河井道
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Kawai Michi (河井 道; July 29, 1877 – February 11, 1953) was a Japanese educator, Christian activist, and proponent of…

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Seiichi Hatano (波多野 精一, Hatano Seiichi; 21 July 1877 – 17 January 1950) was a Japanese philosopher, best known for his…

Akegarasu Haya (暁烏 敏; 1877–1954) was a Shin Buddhist priest in Ōtani-ha. For a decade he was a student of the Shin…

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Toshio Shimada

島田俊雄
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Toshio Shimada (島田 俊雄, Shimada Toshio; 19 June 1877 – 21 December 1947) was a politician and cabinet minister in the…

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Utsubo Kubota (窪田 空穂 Kubota Utsubo; 1877–1967) was a Japanese tanka poet. He also wrote poetry in other forms, as well…

Baron Sadao Araki (荒木 貞夫, Araki Sadao; 26 May 1877 – 2 November 1966) was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese…

Toyotarō Yūki (結城 豊太郎, Yūki Toyotarō; 24 May 1877 – 1 August 1951) was a central banker in the Empire of Japan, serving…

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Etsujirō Uehara (植原 悦二郎, Uehara Etsujirō; 15 May 1877 – 2 December 1962) was a politician and bureaucrat in the early…

Liao Zhongkai (April 23, 1877 – August 20, 1925) was an American-born Chinese revolutionary. He was a close follower of…

Yi Kang, Prince Imperial Ui (Korean: 의친왕 이강; 30 March 1877 – 15 August 1955), also known as Prince Uihwa (1891–1900) or…

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Tsuneo Kanemitsu

金光庸夫
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Tsuneo Kanemitsu (金光 庸夫, Kanemitsu Tsuneo; also as known as Kanemitsu Yasuo; March 13, 1877 – March 5, 1955), was an…

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Matsuzo Nagai (永井 松三, Nagai Matsuzō; 5 March 1877 – 19 April 1957) was a Japanese diplomat and Olympic Games activist.

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Toshio Honma

本間利雄 (内務官僚)
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Toshio Honma (3 March 1877 - 2 February 1970) was a Japanese Home Ministry and Police Bureau government official and…

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Ohara Koson (also Ohara Hōson, Ohara Shōson) (Kanazawa 1877 – Tokyo 1945) was a Japanese painter and woodblock print…

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Ryūsaku Tsunoda

角田柳作
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Ryūsaku Tsunoda (角田 柳作, Tsunoda Ryūsaku; 8 September 1877 - 29 November 1964) was a Japanese scholar and is known as…

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Naoshi Ohara (小原 直, Ohara Naoshi; 24 January 1877 – 8 September 1966) was a bureaucrat and cabinet minister in early…

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Ushinosuke Mori

森丑之助
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Ushinosuke Mori (森丑之助, January 16, 1877–July 4, 1926), who often published articles under pen names Mori Heiushi (森丙牛)…

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Harukazu Nagaoka (長岡 春一, Nagaoka Harukazu; January 16, 1877 in Kobe, Japan – June 30, 1949) was a Japanese diplomat and…

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Kiyoshi Noguchi

野口清
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Kiyoshi Noguchi (野口清, Noguchi Kiyoshi; 1877–1930), also known as Senryuken Noguchi (野口潜龍軒, Noguchi Senryuken) was a…

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Wakami Fujita

藤田若水
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Wakami Fujita (藤田 若水, Fujita Wakami; 11 December 1876 – 30 December 1951) was mayor of Hiroshima from 1939 to 1943. He…

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Mizuho Ōta (太田 水穂, Ōta Mizuho; 9 December 1876 – 1 January 1955) was the pen-name of Teiichi Ōta (太田 貞一, Ōta Teiichi)…

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Kinpei Matsuoka

松岡均平
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Baron Kinpei Matsuoka (松岡 均平, Matsuoka Kinpei; 28 November 1876 – 10 June 1960) was a Japanese politician and academic.…

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Jinzaburō Masaki (真崎 甚三郎, Masaki Jinzaburō; 27 November 1876 – 31 August 1956) was a general in the Imperial Japanese…

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Kiichi Miyake

三宅驥一
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Kiichi Miyake (三宅 驥一, Miyake Kiichi; 11 November 1876 – 20 March 1964) was a Japanese botanist and professor at the…

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Tetsu Tamura

田村哲
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Tetsu Tamura (also known as "S. Tetsu Tamura"; birth name: Satoru Tamura); October 18, 1876 – August 19, 1909) was a…

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Nyogen Senzaki

千崎如幻
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Nyogen Senzaki (千崎 如幻, 1876–1958) was a Rinzai Zen monk who was one of the 20th century's leading proponents of Zen…

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Shinmura Izuru (新村 出; October 4, 1876 – August 17, 1967) was a Japanese linguist and essayist. He is best known for his…

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