SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Sadako Sasaki

1943 - 1955

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Sadako Sasaki (佐々木 禎子, Sasaki Sadako, January 7, 1943 – October 25, 1955) was a Japanese girl who became a victim of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States. She was two years of age when the bombs were dropped and was severely irradiated. She survived for another ten years, becoming one of the most widely known hibakusha—a Japanese term meaning "bomb-affected person". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sadako Sasaki has received more than 1,546,489 page views. Her biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Sadako Sasaki is the 33rd most popular social activist (up from 34th in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Japan (up from 34th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Social Activist.

Sadako Sasaki is most famous for being the girl in the book, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. She was a victim of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Sadako Sasaki ranks 33 out of 840. Before her are Irena Sendler, Simon bar Kokhba, Omar Mukhtar, Emily Greene Balch, Hassan al-Banna, and Élie Ducommun. After her are Emiliano Zapata, Lady Godiva, Ferdinand Lassalle, Jan Palach, Sophie Scholl, and Shirin Ebadi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Sadako Sasaki ranks 20. Before her are Sharon Tate, Roger Waters, Griselda Blanco, Albano Carrisi, Joe Pesci, and Keith Richards. After her are Ben Kingsley, Louise Glück, Christopher Walken, Elena Ferrante, Joseph Stiglitz, and Salvatore Adamo. Among people deceased in 1955, Sadako Sasaki ranks 6. Before her are Albert Einstein, Alexander Fleming, Thomas Mann, James Dean, and Dale Carnegie. After her are António Egas Moniz, José Ortega y Gasset, Fernand Léger, Alberto Ascari, Rodolfo Graziani, and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sadako Sasaki ranks 29 out of 6,245. Before her are Koji Tanaka (1955), Osamu Tezuka (1928), Hideki Tojo (1884), Kanō Jigorō (1860), Kenzaburō Ōe (1935), and Hattori Hanzō (1542). After her are Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892), Saigō Takamori (1828), Yayoi Kusama (1929), Sasaki Kojirō (1583), Lee Myung-bak (1941), and Yasujirō Ozu (1903).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Japan

Among social activists born in Japan, Sadako Sasaki ranks 1. After her are Sakamoto Ryōma (1836), Ishikawa Goemon (1558), Otoya Yamaguchi (1943), Itagaki Taisuke (1837), Kōtoku Shūsui (1871), Ninomiya Sontoku (1787), Toyohiko Kagawa (1888), Ōsugi Sakae (1885), Gotō Shōjirō (1838), Megumi Yokota (1964), and Akira Amano (1973).

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