POLITICIAN

Tarō Kōno

1963 - Today

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Taro Kono (河野 太郎, Kōno Tarō, born 10 January 1963) is a Japanese politician who served as the Minister for Digital Transformation from 2022 to 2024. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he previously served as Minister for Administrative Reform and Regulatory Reform from 2015 to 2016 and from 2020 to 2021, and was the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister of Defense under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tarō Kōno has received more than 216,188 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Tarō Kōno is the 15,002nd most popular politician (down from 10,615th in 2019), the 1,326th most popular biography from Japan (down from 859th in 2019) and the 325th most popular Japanese Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Tarō Kōno ranks 15,002 out of 19,576. Before him are Nguyễn Thị Định, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Norbert Hofer, Eduard Kukan, Quintus Marcius Philippus, and Awn Al-Khasawneh. After him are Pedro Diniz, Ahmad Zia Massoud, Tihomir Orešković, Liang Guanglie, Masrour Barzani, and Tom Naudé.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Tarō Kōno ranks 291. Before him are Ziad Tlemçani, Ukyo Katayama, Daniel Bravo, Alexandra Paul, Jon Turteltaub, and Pedro Duque. After him are Nina Ananiashvili, Michel Der Zakarian, Dylan Walsh, Alex Kingston, Roberto Mussi, and Stanley Menzo.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tarō Kōno ranks 1,326 out of 6,245. Before him are Hiroyuki Sawano (1980), Toshi (1965), Nobuo Fujishima (1950), Kōkichi Tsuburaya (1940), Mitsunori Fujiguchi (1949), and Hiromi Tsuru (1960). After him are Maria Ozawa (1986), Yuichi Nishimura (1972), Jiro Sato (1908), Fumio Gotō (1884), Noboru Terada (1917), and Kazuhiko Nishijima (1926).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Tarō Kōno ranks 325. Before him are Kenji Miyamoto (1908), Seigō Nakano (1886), Takako Doi (1928), Akie Abe (1962), Mikio Aoki (1934), and Sakai Toshihiko (1871). After him are Fumio Gotō (1884), Toshikatsu Matsuoka (1945), Hirofumi Nakasone (1945), Nobuo Kishi (1959), Toshimitsu Motegi (1955), and Shidzue Katō (1897).

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