SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Gotō Shōjirō

1838 - 1897

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Count Gotō Shōjirō (後藤 象二郎, April 13, 1838 – August 4, 1897) was a Japanese samurai and politician during the Bakumatsu and early Meiji period of Japanese history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gotō Shōjirō has received more than 42,745 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Gotō Shōjirō is the 448th most popular social activist (down from 383rd in 2019), the 1,138th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,029th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Japanese Social Activist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Gotō Shōjirō ranks 448 out of 840. Before him are Grace Sherwood, Lee Radziwill, Estela de Carlotto, Donald Watson, Henriette Herz, and William Lloyd Garrison. After him are Sophie Liebknecht, Olga Lepeshinskaya, Hamida Javanshir, Tuvia Bielski, Mohammad Ali Jauhar, and Lucy Stone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Gotō Shōjirō ranks 86. Before him are Toyohara Chikanobu, Keshub Chandra Sen, Marianne Cope, Duleep Singh, Paul Mauser, and Giovanni Cagliero. After him are Marin Drinov, Adam Asnyk, Gustav Neumann, Ferdinand Zirkel, Stefanos Skouloudis, and Oswald Schmiedeberg. Among people deceased in 1897, Gotō Shōjirō ranks 61. Before him are Robert Themptander, Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau, Carl Remigius Fresenius, Oscar Dickson, Alvan Graham Clark, and Mutsu Munemitsu. After him are James Legge, Japetus Steenstrup, Adam Asnyk, Dimitrie Ghica, William Henry Conley, and Jan Heemskerk.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Gotō Shōjirō ranks 1,138 out of 6,245. Before him are Ichirō Nagai (1931), Hidetoki Takahashi (1916), Haruko Sugimura (1909), Aguri Suzuki (1960), Hajime Isayama (1986), and Tadashi Imai (1912). After him are Akira Emoto (1948), Toshiko Yuasa (1909), Yumi Matsutoya (1954), Isao Kimura (1923), Toru Iwatani (1955), and Kanno Sugako (1881).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Japan

Among social activists born in Japan, Gotō Shōjirō ranks 10. Before him are Otoya Yamaguchi (1943), Itagaki Taisuke (1837), Kōtoku Shūsui (1871), Ninomiya Sontoku (1787), Toyohiko Kagawa (1888), and Ōsugi Sakae (1885). After him are Megumi Yokota (1964), Akira Amano (1973), Jared Taylor (1951), Sayaka Osakabe (1978), and Oliver Wood (null).

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