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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Megumi Yokota

1964 - Today

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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 837,529 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Megumi Yokota is the 440th most popular social activist (down from 417th in 2019), the 1,178th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,253rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Social Activist.

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  • 840k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Megumi Yokota ranks 440 out of 538. Before her are Charu Majumdar, William Luther Pierce, Octavia Hill, Medgar Evers, Eugénie Cotton, and Helene Stöcker. After her are Stokely Carmichael, Devdas Gandhi, Mohammad Ali Jauhar, Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Denis Goldberg, and Annie Kenney.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Megumi Yokota ranks 232. Before her are Maynard James Keenan, Vladimir Smirnov, Albert Dupontel, Nicole, Linus Roache, and Luciano Floridi. After her are Vyacheslav Volodin, Esbjörn Svensson, Ursula Karven, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Vivica A. Fox, and Sven Väth.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Megumi Yokota ranks 1,178 out of 6,048. Before her are Yasushi Akashi (1931), Yoshio Kikugawa (1944), Akira Endo (1933), Masakazu Katsura (1962), Tite Kubo (1977), and Hitoshi Sasaki (1891). After her are Chūhei Nambu (1904), Kotono Mitsuishi (1967), Sakai Toshihiko (1871), Yusaku Maezawa (1975), Miyavi (1981), and Kei Kumai (1930).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Japan

Among social activists born in Japan, Megumi Yokota ranks 8. Before her are Sakamoto Ryōma (1836), Ishikawa Goemon (1558), Otoya Yamaguchi (1943), Itagaki Taisuke (1837), Toyohiko Kagawa (1888), and Gotō Shōjirō (1838). After her are Akira Amano (1973) and Jared Taylor (1951).

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