POLITICIAN

Shō Tai

1843 - 1901

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Shō Tai (尚 泰, 3 August 1843 – 19 August 1901) was the last king of the Ryukyu Kingdom (8 June 1848 – 10 October 1872) and the head of the Ryukyu Domain (10 October 1872 – 27 March 1879). His reign saw greatly increased interactions with travelers from abroad, particularly from Europe and the United States, as well as the eventual end of the kingdom and its annexation by Japan as Ryukyu Domain (later Okinawa Prefecture). In 1879, the deposed king was forced to relocate to Tokyo. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shō Tai has received more than 261,800 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Shō Tai is the 6,788th most popular politician (up from 7,151st in 2019), the 519th most popular biography from Japan (up from 559th in 2019) and the 214th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Shō Tai ranks 6,788 out of 19,576. Before him are Sigobert the Lame, Julius Dorpmüller, Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat, Al-Hakim I, Hastings Banda, and Horace Walpole. After him are Ahmed Izzet Pasha, Charles II, Elector Palatine, Johannes R. Becher, Herod of Chalcis, Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi, and Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, Shō Tai ranks 36. Before him are Mikhail Skobelev, Hans Richter, Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal, Lydia Koidula, Elizabeth Stride, and Antonio Labriola. After him are Robert Todd Lincoln, Julio Argentino Roca, Eugene de Blaas, Aleksandra Potanina, Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev, and Louis Duchesne. Among people deceased in 1901, Shō Tai ranks 29. Before him are Nikolaos Gyzis, George Francis FitzGerald, Max Joseph von Pettenkofer, Francesc Pi i Margall, Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Iosif Gurko. After him are François-Marie Raoult, Princess Januária of Brazil, Lev Ivanov, Dagny Juel, Leopoldo Alas, and Albert, 4th duc de Broglie.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shō Tai ranks 519 out of 6,245. Before him are Satoshi Nakamoto (1975), Kōji Yakusho (1956), Victoria Principal (1950), Momoko Kōchi (1932), Eizo Yuguchi (1945), and Minamoto no Sanetomo (1192). After him are Hisao Kami (1941), Wakisaka Yasuharu (1554), Korechika Anami (1887), Kiyoo Kanda (1900), Shinran (1173), and Yoshida Shōin (1830).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Shō Tai ranks 214. Before him are Minamoto no Yoriie (1182), Yamamoto Gonnohyōe (1852), Emperor Yōzei (867), Fusako Shigenobu (1945), Fujiwara no Kamatari (614), and Emperor Shirakawa (1053). After him are Korechika Anami (1887), Yoshida Shōin (1830), Emperor En'yū (959), Ryutaro Hashimoto (1937), Shigechiyo Izumi (1865), and Yōsuke Matsuoka (1880).

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