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Prince Yasuhiko Asaka

1887 - 1981

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Prince Yasuhiko Asaka (朝香宮鳩彦王, Asaka-no-miya Yasuhiko-ō, 20 October 1887 – 12 April 1981) was the founder of a collateral branch of the Japanese Imperial Family and a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Japanese invasion of China and the Second World War. He was the son-in-law of Emperor Meiji and uncle by marriage of Emperor Hirohito. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Prince Yasuhiko Asaka has received more than 860,649 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Prince Yasuhiko Asaka is the 459th most popular nobleman (down from 275th in 2019), the 528th most popular biography from Japan (down from 243rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Nobleman.

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  • 19

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka ranks 459 out of 1,415. Before him are Joanna Sophia of Bavaria, Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy, Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, Peter I, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Princess Alexandra of Hanover, and Bernhard, Count of Anhalt. After him are Godfrey the Bearded, Thierry, Count of Flanders, Charles II de Valois, Duke of Orléans, Princess Maria Francesca of Savoy, Catherine of Cleves, and Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka ranks 82. Before him are Avery Brundage, Leonard Bloomfield, Hugo Steinhaus, Simko Shikak, Paul Wittgenstein, and Korechika Anami. After him are Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, Wilhelm Kube, Mario Roatta, Octave Lapize, Louis Jouvet, and Lil Dagover. Among people deceased in 1981, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka ranks 57. Before him are Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, Mike Hailwood, Christy Brown, Heinz Kohut, Albert Cohen, and Mao Dun. After him are Josep Pla, Giuseppe Pella, Lotte Reiniger, Gunichi Mikawa, Valeri Kharlamov, and Gloria Grahame.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka ranks 528 out of 6,245. Before him are Korechika Anami (1887), Kiyoo Kanda (1900), Shinran (1173), Yoshida Shōin (1830), Emperor En'yū (959), and Ryutaro Hashimoto (1937). After him are Shigechiyo Izumi (1865), Yōsuke Matsuoka (1880), Masao Nozawa (null), Otozō Yamada (1881), Emperor Junnin (733), and Jiro Miyake (1900).

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Among NOBLEMEN In Japan

Among noblemen born in Japan, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka ranks 4. Before him are Akihito (1933), Naruhito (1960), and Yodo-dono (1569). After him are Fumihito, Prince Akishino (1965), Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu (1905), Kiko, Princess Akishino (1966), Prince Tomohito of Mikasa (1946), Sayako Kuroda (1969), Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu (1911), Princess Tomohito of Mikasa (1955), and Princess Mako of Akishino (1991).

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