1887 - 1981
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 751,539 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Prince Yasuhiko Asaka is the 276th most popular nobleman (up from 284th in 2019), the 245th most popular biography from Japan (up from 326th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Nobleman.
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Among noblemen, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka ranks 276 out of 842. Before him are Robert III of Artois, Infante Francisco de Paula, Duke of Cádiz, Henry I, Count of Champagne, Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, George, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg, and Stephen, Count of Blois. After him are Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia, Gioffre Borgia, Clemence of Austria, Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, and Johann II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar.
1287 - 1342
HPI: 59.65
Rank: 270
1794 - 1865
HPI: 59.63
Rank: 271
1127 - 1181
HPI: 59.62
Rank: 272
1619 - 1679
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 273
1582 - 1641
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 274
1045 - 1102
HPI: 59.53
Rank: 275
1887 - 1981
HPI: 59.53
Rank: 276
1909 - 1967
HPI: 59.53
Rank: 277
1481 - 1517
HPI: 59.50
Rank: 278
1262 - 1295
HPI: 59.47
Rank: 279
1849 - 1882
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 280
1645 - 1721
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 281
1570 - 1605
HPI: 59.43
Rank: 282
Among people born in 1887, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka ranks 60. Before him are Bernardo Houssay, Josef Harpe, Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, George Pólya, James Paul Moody, and Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni. After him are Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, Paul Wittgenstein, Conrad Hilton, Mamoru Shigemitsu, Arnold Zweig, and Blaise Cendrars. Among people deceased in 1981, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka ranks 44. Before him are Bill Haley, Bernard Lee, Lobsang Rampa, Leo Kanner, Omar Torrijos, and Lotte Lenya. After him are Duško Popov, Stefan Wyszyński, Karl Richter, Heinz Kohut, Natalia Pavlovna Paley, and Mike Hailwood.
1887 - 1971
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 54
1887 - 1968
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 55
1887 - 1949
HPI: 60.57
Rank: 56
1887 - 1985
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 57
1887 - 1912
HPI: 60.22
Rank: 58
1887 - 1990
HPI: 59.73
Rank: 59
1887 - 1981
HPI: 59.53
Rank: 60
1887 - 1965
HPI: 59.49
Rank: 61
1887 - 1961
HPI: 59.43
Rank: 62
1887 - 1979
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 63
1887 - 1957
HPI: 59.15
Rank: 64
1887 - 1968
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 65
1887 - 1961
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 66
1925 - 1981
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 38
1908 - 1981
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 39
1910 - 1981
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 40
1894 - 1981
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 41
1929 - 1981
HPI: 59.99
Rank: 42
1898 - 1981
HPI: 59.83
Rank: 43
1887 - 1981
HPI: 59.53
Rank: 44
1912 - 1981
HPI: 59.47
Rank: 45
1901 - 1981
HPI: 59.16
Rank: 46
1926 - 1981
HPI: 58.82
Rank: 47
1913 - 1981
HPI: 57.85
Rank: 48
1905 - 1981
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 49
1940 - 1981
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 50
Among people born in Japan, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka ranks 245 out of 6,048. Before him are Kaoru Ishikawa (1915), Susumu Tonegawa (1939), Nobuyoshi Araki (1940), Shintaro Ishihara (1932), Mōri Motonari (1497), and Emperor Go-Mizunoo (1596). After him are Emperor Go-Kashiwabara (1464), Amakusa Shirō (1621), Masaru Ibuka (1908), Hōjō Tokimune (1251), Hiroyuki Sanada (1960), and Yozo Aoki (1929).
1915 - 1989
HPI: 59.67
Rank: 239
1939 - Present
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 240
1940 - Present
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 241
1932 - 2022
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 242
1497 - 1571
HPI: 59.56
Rank: 243
1596 - 1680
HPI: 59.55
Rank: 244
1887 - 1981
HPI: 59.53
Rank: 245
1464 - 1526
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 246
1621 - 1638
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 247
1908 - 1997
HPI: 59.50
Rank: 248
1251 - 1284
HPI: 59.48
Rank: 249
1960 - Present
HPI: 59.47
Rank: 250
1929 - 2014
HPI: 59.45
Rank: 251
Among noblemen born in Japan, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka ranks 4. Before him are Akihito (1933), Naruhito (1960), and Fumihito, Prince Akishino (1965). After him are Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu (1905), Kiko, Princess Akishino (1966), Prince Tomohito of Mikasa (1946), Sayako Kuroda (1969), Princess Mako of Akishino (1991), Aiko, Princess Toshi (2001), Princess Kako of Akishino (1994), and Prince Hisahito of Akishino (2006).
1933 - Present
HPI: 79.44
Rank: 1
1960 - Present
HPI: 74.28
Rank: 2
1965 - Present
HPI: 59.70
Rank: 3
1887 - 1981
HPI: 59.53
Rank: 4
1905 - 1987
HPI: 55.72
Rank: 5
1966 - Present
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 6
1946 - 2012
HPI: 52.51
Rank: 7
1969 - Present
HPI: 49.85
Rank: 8
1991 - Present
HPI: 43.72
Rank: 9
2001 - Present
HPI: 42.31
Rank: 10
1994 - Present
HPI: 40.81
Rank: 11
2006 - Present
HPI: 38.22
Rank: 12