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Emperor Taishō

1879 - 1926

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Yoshihito (Japanese: 嘉仁, 31 August 1879 – 25 December 1926), posthumously honored as Emperor Taishō (大正天皇, Taishō-tennō), was the 123rd Emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 1912 until his death in 1926. The era he presided over is known as the Taishō era. Born to Emperor Meiji and his concubine Yanagiwara Naruko, Yoshihito was proclaimed crown prince in 1888, his two older siblings having died in infancy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emperor Taishō has received more than 3,774,792 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Emperor Taishō is the 2nd most popular public worker (up from 3rd in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Japan (up from 20th 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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  • 73.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 66

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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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, Thomas Cromwell, Robert Walpole, Demetrius of Phalerum, Ali Hassan al-Majid, 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 Franz von Papen, Otto Hahn, Emiliano Zapata, Max von Laue, Owen Willans Richardson, and Alma Mahler. Among people deceased in 1926, Emperor Taishō ranks 6. Before him are Claude Monet, Antoni Gaudí, Mehmed VI, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Harry Houdini. After him are Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Camillo Golgi, Mary Cassatt, and Emil Kraepelin.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Emperor Taishō ranks 18 out of 6,048. Before him are Haruki Murakami (1949), Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542), Naruhito (1960), Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536), Murasaki Shikibu (973), and Isoroku Yamamoto (1884). After him are Osamu Dazai (1909), Yasunari Kawabata (1899), Emperor Jimmu (-711), Yoko Ono (1933), Hideki Tojo (1884), and Sasaki Kojirō (1583).

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Among PUBLIC WORKERS In Japan

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

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