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POLITICIAN

Emperor Meiji

1852 - 1912

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Mutsuhito (Japanese: 睦仁, 3 November 1852 – 30 July 1912), posthumously honored as Emperor Meiji (明治天皇, Meiji-tennō), was the 122nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Reigning from 1867 to his death, he was the first monarch of the Empire of Japan and presided over the Meiji era. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emperor Meiji has received more than 4,978,070 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). Emperor Meiji is the 240th most popular politician (down from 210th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Japan (down from 7th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Politician.

Emperor Meiji is most famous for the modernization of Japan.

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  • 77.12

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  • 79

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Emperor Meiji ranks 240 out of 15,577Before him are Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, Olof Palme, Ashurbanipal, Puyi, Mars, and Enver Hoxha. After him are Georgy Zhukov, James VI and I, Şehzade Bayezid, Woodrow Wilson, Helmut Kohl, and Henry II of France.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Emperor Meiji ranks 3Before him are Antoni Gaudí and Henri Becquerel. After him are Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Emil Fischer, Henri Moissan, Gojong of Korea, Albert A. Michelson, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, William Ramsay, Francisco Tárrega, and Joseph Joffre. Among people deceased in 1912, Emperor Meiji ranks 1After him are Henri Poincaré, August Strindberg, Jules Massenet, Edward Smith, Bram Stoker, Frédéric Passy, Frederick VIII of Denmark, Karl May, Thomas Andrews, Robert Falcon Scott, and Joseph Lister.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Emperor Meiji ranks 8 out of 6,048Before him are Hokusai (1760), Akihito (1933), Akira Kurosawa (1910), Hayao Miyazaki (1941), Miyamoto Musashi (1584), and Oda Nobunaga (1534). After him are Kanō Jigorō (1860), Yukio Mishima (1925), Matsuo Bashō (1644), Haruki Murakami (1949), Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542), and Naruhito (1960).

Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Emperor Meiji ranks 2Before him are Hirohito (1901). After him are Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536), Emperor Jimmu (-711), Hideki Tojo (1884), Sasaki Kojirō (1583), Lee Myung-bak (1941), Himiko (175), Emperor Kōmei (1831), Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894), Emperor Ninkō (1800), and Emperor Kōkaku (1771).