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Megumi Yokota

1964 - 1977

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Megumi Yokota (横田 めぐみ, Yokota Megumi) (born 5 October 1964) is a Japanese citizen who was abducted by a North Korean agent in 1977 when she was a thirteen-year-old junior high school student. She was one of at least seventeen Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korea in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The North Korean government has admitted to kidnapping Yokota, but has said that she died in captivity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Megumi Yokota has received more than 874,377 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Megumi Yokota is the 463rd most popular social activist (down from 440th in 2019), the 1,186th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,175th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Japanese Social Activist.

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  • 48.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Megumi Yokota ranks 463 out of 840. Before her are Nazik al-Abid, Christine Delphy, Gabrielle Petit, Kim Ok, Mary Toft, and Shivakumara Swami. After her are Dewi Sartika, Leo Deutsch, Osvaldo Hurtado, Lev Chernyi, Jack Sheppard, and Charu Majumdar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Megumi Yokota ranks 207. Before her are Kim Ok, Christopher Judge, Marco Rossi, Staffan Olsson, Michael Cudlitz, and Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. After her are Sebastiano Rossi, Georg von Habsburg, Giuseppe Giannini, Vreni Schneider, Minami Takayama, and Lori Loughlin. Among people deceased in 1977, Megumi Yokota ranks 166. Before her are Tay Garnett, José Perácio, Otto Kaiser, Mike Parkes, Leila Hyams, and Edward Van Dijck. After her are Martí Ventolrà, Vladimir Tributs, Johann Nepomuk David, Florence Vidor, Peter Carl Goldmark, and Arnold Bode.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Megumi Yokota ranks 1,186 out of 6,245. Before her are Hideo Nakata (1961), Seiki Ichihara (1950), Tura Satana (1938), Ikuo Takahara (1957), Masayoshi Ito (1913), and Hiro Mashima (1977). After her are Sadakazu Tanigaki (1945), Jinzō Matsumura (1856), Mazie Hirono (1947), Satoshi Yamaguchi (1959), Sumio Iijima (1939), and Iccho Itoh (1945).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Japan

Among social activists born in Japan, Megumi Yokota ranks 11. Before her are Itagaki Taisuke (1837), Kōtoku Shūsui (1871), Ninomiya Sontoku (1787), Toyohiko Kagawa (1888), Ōsugi Sakae (1885), and Gotō Shōjirō (1838). After her are Akira Amano (1973), Jared Taylor (1951), Sayaka Osakabe (1978), and Oliver Wood (null).

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