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Masabumi Hosono

1870 - 1939

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Masabumi Hosono (細野 正文, Hosono Masabumi, 15 October 1870 – 14 March 1939) was a Japanese civil servant. He survived the sinking of the Titanic on 15 April 1912 but found himself condemned and ostracized by the Japanese public, press, and government because of a misconception that he decided to save himself rather than go down with the ship. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Masabumi Hosono has received more than 689,015 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Masabumi Hosono is the 218th most popular explorer (down from 177th in 2019), the 728th most popular biography from Japan (down from 588th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Explorer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 690k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Masabumi Hosono has had the most page views in the with 202,268 views, followed by English (81,272), and Spanish (10,262). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Czech (76.74%), Arabic (74.28%), and Egyptian Arabic (73.26%)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Masabumi Hosono ranks 218 out of 498. Before him are Francisco de Bobadilla, Duarte Pacheco Pereira, Julius Klaproth, Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn, Carsten Borchgrevink, and Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne. After him are Daniel Boone, Jedediah Smith, Ma Huan, Nuno Tristão, Joshua Slocum, and Dinis Dias.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Masabumi Hosono ranks 74. Before him are Thomas Byles, Leonid Krasin, Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Reginald Lee, Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, and Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov. After him are Géza Maróczy, Princess Maria Theresa of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Joseph Strauss, Ada Negri, Osachi Hamaguchi, and Hilaire Belloc. Among people deceased in 1939, Masabumi Hosono ranks 68. Before him are Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, Benjamin Tucker, Archibald Leitch, Louis Trousselier, and Konstantin Somov. After him are Johann Strauss III, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Max Skladanowsky, Ma Rainey, Stjepan Sarkotić, and Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masabumi Hosono ranks 728 out of 6,245. Before him are Shigeo Shingo (1909), Masami Kurumada (1953), Fukusaburo Harada (null), Ikki Kita (1883), Motoo Kimura (1924), and Takao Nishiyama (1942). After him are Taisen Deshimaru (1914), Harukichi Hyakutake (1888), Tanzan Ishibashi (1884), Donald Tsang (1944), Ariwara no Narihira (825), and Kisshomaru Ueshiba (1921).

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Among EXPLORERS In Japan

Among explorers born in Japan, Masabumi Hosono ranks 1. 

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