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Fusako Shigenobu

1945 - Today

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Fusako Shigenobu (Japanese: 重信 房子, Hepburn: Shigenobu Fusako, born September 28, 1945) is a Japanese communist activist, writer, and the founder and leader of the now-disbanded militant group Japanese Red Army (JRA). Born in Japan, Shigenobu became involved in New Left activism while attending night school at Meiji University in Tokyo. In 1969, she joined the Red Army Faction (RAF), a communist group that advocated immediate, armed revolution against the governments of the United States and Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fusako Shigenobu has received more than 636,398 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Fusako Shigenobu is the 6,621st most popular politician (up from 8,197th in 2019), the 508th most popular biography from Japan (up from 659th in 2019) and the 211th most popular Japanese Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Fusako Shigenobu ranks 6,621 out of 19,576. Before her are Giulio Alberoni, Chang of Goryeo, Joan of Kent, Mahmud Hotak, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, and Marie Anne Mancini. After her are Adolph Diesterweg, Raymond II, Count of Tripoli, Sergius I of Constantinople, Valerian Kuybyshev, Anna of Hohenstaufen, and Akhmet Baitursynov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Fusako Shigenobu ranks 141. Before her are Christine Kaufmann, Radu Lupu, Gal Costa, Barbara Carrera, Junji Kawano, and Robert Cialdini. After her are Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, Jessye Norman, Pirri, Eizo Yuguchi, Princess Michael of Kent, and Raymond E. Feist.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Fusako Shigenobu ranks 508 out of 6,245. Before her are Minamoto no Yoriie (1182), Kisho Kurokawa (1934), Yamamoto Gonnohyōe (1852), Takehiko Kawanishi (1938), Saichō (767), and Emperor Yōzei (867). After her are Minamoto no Yorimasa (1106), Fujiwara no Kamatari (614), Osami Nagano (1880), Emperor Shirakawa (1053), Satoshi Nakamoto (1975), and Kōji Yakusho (1956).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Fusako Shigenobu ranks 211. Before her are Emperor Kameyama (1249), Tokugawa Ietsugu (1709), Kōichirō Matsuura (1937), Minamoto no Yoriie (1182), Yamamoto Gonnohyōe (1852), and Emperor Yōzei (867). After her are Fujiwara no Kamatari (614), Emperor Shirakawa (1053), Shō Tai (1843), Korechika Anami (1887), Yoshida Shōin (1830), and Emperor En'yū (959).

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