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Empress Michiko

1934 - Today

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Michiko (美智子, born Michiko Shōda [正田 美智子 Shōda Michiko] on 20 October 1934) is a member of the Imperial House of Japan. She was Empress of Japan as the wife of Akihito, the 125th Emperor of Japan reigning from 7 January 1989 to 30 April 2019. Michiko married Crown Prince Akihito and became Crown Princess of Japan in 1959. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Empress Michiko has received more than 2,109,434 page views. Her biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Empress Michiko is the 14th most popular celebrity (down from 12th in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from Japan (down from 56th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Celebrity.

Empress Michiko is most famous for being the wife of Emperor Akihito and the mother of Crown Prince Naruhito.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 72.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CELEBRITIES

Among celebrities, Empress Michiko ranks 14 out of 265. Before her are Robert Wadlow, Millvina Dean, Geli Raubal, Simonetta Vespucci, Anna Nicole Smith, and Jon Brower Minnoch. After her are Maria von Trapp, Buffalo Bill, Joseph Merrick, Tollund Man, Monica Lewinsky, and Dodi Fayed.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Empress Michiko ranks 25. Before her are Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ulrike Meinhof, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Pierre Richard, Stjepan Mesić, and Shirley MacLaine. After her are Manuel Noriega, Paul Ekman, Alan Bates, Sydney Pollack, Alexei Leonov, and Niklaus Wirth.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Empress Michiko ranks 60 out of 6,245. Before her are Tadao Ando (1941), Koxinga (1624), Isamu Akasaki (1929), Emperor Suizei (-669), Liv Ullmann (1938), and Junji Nishikawa (1907). After her are Mako (1933), Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916), Natsume Sōseki (1867), Kane Tanaka (1903), Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), and Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837).

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Among CELEBRITIES In Japan

Among celebrities born in Japan, Empress Michiko ranks 1. After her are Riyo Mori (1986), Erika Toda (1988), and Ariana Miyamoto (1994).

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