Emperor Meiji

Emperor Meiji

Emperor Meiji (明治天皇, Meiji-tennō, 3 November 1852 – 30 July 1912), also called Meiji the Great (明治大帝, Meiji-taitei) or Meiji the Good, (明治聖帝, Meiji-seitei) was the 122nd emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession. Reigning from 3 February 1867 until his death on 30 July 1912, and the first monarch of the Empire of Japan, he presided over the Meiji era, and instigated the Meiji Restoration, a series of rapid changes that witnessed Japan's transformation from an isolationist, feudal state to an industrialized world power. At the time of Emperor Meiji's birth in 1852, Japan was a feudal, pre-industrial country dominated by the isolationist Tokugawa shogunate and the daimyō subject to it, who ruled over the country's 270 decentralized domains. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emperor Meiji has received more than 3,704,160 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Emperor Meiji is the 210th most popular politician (up from 354th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Japan (up from 13th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Politician.

Emperor Meiji is most famous for the modernization of Japan.