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Emperor Taishō

1879 - 1926

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Yoshihito (31 August 1879 – 25 December 1926), posthumously honored as Emperor Taishō, was the 123rd emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 1912 until his death in 1926. His reign, known as the Taishō era, was characterized by a liberal and democratic shift in domestic political power, known as Taishō Democracy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emperor Taishō has received more than 4,112,766 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Emperor Taishō is the 2nd most popular public worker, the 15th most popular biography from Japan (up from 18th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Public Worker.

Taishō was the emperor of Japan from 1912 to 1926. He was most famous for being the emperor during World War I and World War II.

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  • 3.80

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Among PUBLIC WORKERS

Among public workers, Emperor Taishō ranks 2 out of 15. Before him are Draco. After him are Alois Hitler, Joseph Fouché, Mikhail Kalinin, Gaius Maecenas, Demetrius of Phalerum, Thomas Cromwell, Ali Hassan al-Majid, Robert Walpole, Markus Wolf, and John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Emperor Taishō ranks 6. Before him are Albert Einstein, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Paul Klee, and Kazimir Malevich. After him are Max von Laue, Otto Hahn, Franz von Papen, Francis Picabia, Emiliano Zapata, and Alma Mahler. Among people deceased in 1926, Emperor Taishō ranks 6. Before him are Claude Monet, Antoni Gaudí, Rainer Maria Rilke, Mehmed VI, and Harry Houdini. After him are Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Mary Cassatt, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Camillo Golgi, and Sunjong of Korea.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Emperor Taishō ranks 15 out of 6,245. Before him are Matsuo Bashō (1644), Haruki Murakami (1949), Yukio Mishima (1925), Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542), Naruhito (1960), and Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536). After him are Isoroku Yamamoto (1884), Yoko Ono (1933), Yasunari Kawabata (1899), Osamu Dazai (1909), Murasaki Shikibu (973), and Emperor Jimmu (-711).

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Among PUBLIC WORKERS In Japan

Among public workers born in Japan, Emperor Taishō ranks 1. 

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