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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Kōtoku Shūsui

1871 - 1911

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Kōtoku Denjirō (幸徳 傳次郎, November 5, 1871 – January 24, 1911), better known by the pen name Kōtoku Shūsui (Japanese: 幸徳 秋水, Japanese pronunciation: [koːtokɯ ɕɯːsɯi]), was a Japanese socialist and anarchist who played a leading role in introducing anarchism to Japan in the early 20th century. Historian John Crump described him as "the most famous socialist in Japan". He was a prominent figure in radical politics in Japan, opposing the Russo-Japanese War by founding the Heimin-sha group and its associated newspaper, Heimin Shinbun. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kōtoku Shūsui has received more than 85,689 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Kōtoku Shūsui is the 295th most popular social activist (down from 289th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 86k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Kōtoku Shūsui ranks 295 out of 538. Before him are Allan Octavian Hume, Diana Budisavljević, Dhondo Keshav Karve, Emmett Till, Abdallah ibn Yasin, and Bhikaiji Cama. After him are Ricardo Flores Magón, Túpac Katari, Millicent Fawcett, Zhang Guotao, Yuri Levitan, and Maurice Bishop.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Kōtoku Shūsui ranks 77. Before him are Hermann Abert, Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, Alexander Spendiaryan, Benjamin I of Constantinople, and Camille Huysmans. After him are Luigi Sturzo, Lottie Dod, Gyula Kellner, John Millington Synge, Emily Carr, and Arthur Griffith. Among people deceased in 1911, Kōtoku Shūsui ranks 42. Before him are Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Félix Ziem, Mirza Alakbar Sabir, Édouard André, Maurice Rouvier, and Vasily Klyuchevsky. After him are Joan Maragall, Fritz von Uhde, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Howard Pyle, Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko, and Konrad Duden.

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