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POLITICIAN

Hirohito

1901 - 1989

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Hirohito (29 April 1901 – 7 January 1989), posthumously honored as Emperor Shōwa, was the 124th emperor of Japan, reigning from 1926 until his death in 1989. He was one of the longest-reigning monarchs in the world, with his reign of 62 years being the longest of any Japanese emperor. Hirohito was born at Aoyama Palace in Tokyo, during the reign of his paternal grandfather, Emperor Meiji. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hirohito has received more than 14,267,903 page views. His biography is available in 122 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 118 in 2019). Hirohito is the 80th most popular politician (up from 104th in 2019), the most popular biography from Japan and the most popular Japanese Politician.

Hirohito was the emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989. He is most famous for being the emperor of Japan during World War II.

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  • 14M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 82.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 122

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hirohito ranks 80 out of 15,577. Before him are Murad III, Ivan the Terrible, Richard I of England, Napoleon III, Joe Biden, and Ashoka. After him are Selim I, Trajan, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Kösem Sultan, Francisco Franco, and Philip II of Spain.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Hirohito ranks 1. After him are Walt Disney, Marlene Dietrich, Werner Heisenberg, Louis Armstrong, Enrico Fermi, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, Jacques Lacan, Linus Pauling, Clark Gable, Rudolf Höss, and Sukarno. Among people deceased in 1989, Hirohito ranks 2. Before him is Salvador Dalí. After him are Nicolae Ceaușescu, Ruhollah Khomeini, Samuel Beckett, Ted Bundy, Herbert von Karajan, Konrad Lorenz, Sergio Leone, Georges Simenon, Andrei Sakharov, and Zita of Bourbon-Parma.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hirohito ranks 1 out of 6,048. After him are Hokusai (1760), Akihito (1933), Akira Kurosawa (1910), Hayao Miyazaki (1941), Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Oda Nobunaga (1534), Emperor Meiji (1852), Kanō Jigorō (1860), Yukio Mishima (1925), Matsuo Bashō (1644), and Haruki Murakami (1949).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Hirohito ranks 1. After him are Emperor Meiji (1852), Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536), Emperor Jimmu (-711), Hideki Tojo (1884), Sasaki Kojirō (1583), Lee Myung-bak (1941), Himiko (175), Emperor Kōmei (1831), Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894), Emperor Ninkō (1800), and Emperor Kōkaku (1771).

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