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Yukio Edano

1964 - Today

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Yukio Edano (枝野 幸男, Edano Yukio, born 31 May 1964) is a Japanese politician who served as the leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan from its formation in 2017 until 2021. He has served in various significant political roles, including the 3rd Policy Research Council Chairperson of the former Democratic Party of Japan, the 6th Policy Research Council Chairperson of the Democratic Party, the 140th Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs, the 16th Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Minister of State for the Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation, the inaugural Secretary-General of the Democratic Party for the People, the inaugural leader of the former Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, the inaugural leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, and the Chairperson of the House of Representatives Committee on Audit and Oversight of Administration. He was elected to parliament in the 1993 Japanese general election under the Japan New Party, and served briefly in the governments of Morihiro Hosokawa, Tsutomu Hata, Tomiichi Murayama, and the first Ryutaro Hashimoto cabinet before leaving the New Party Sakigake to join the Democratic Party in 1998. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yukio Edano has received more than 243,518 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Yukio Edano is the 16,869th most popular politician (down from 14,221st in 2019), the 1,667th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,249th in 2019) and the 343rd most popular Japanese Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yukio Edano ranks 16,869 out of 19,576. Before him are Ousmane Issoufi Maïga, Giorgos Kaminis, Sorin Grindeanu, Mercedes Aráoz, Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga, and Zinetula Bilyaletdinov. After him are Theresa Kachindamoto, Inese Vaidere, César Villanueva, Bill English, Élie Doté, and David Rice Atchison.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Yukio Edano ranks 448. Before him are Stephen Dunham, Susan Rice, Gloria Reuben, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Taisia Povaliy, and Yeardley Smith. After him are Herbert Fandel, Victor Wooten, L'Wren Scott, Yoshua Bengio, Sheila Echols, and Miguel Varoni.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yukio Edano ranks 1,667 out of 6,245. Before him are Yuji Sakakura (1967), Kazuki Nakajima (1985), Kenji Nagai (1957), Sayuri Yamaguchi (1966), Hisakichi Toyoda (1912), and Takeshi Kusao (1965). After him are Rie Miyazawa (1973), Shunkichi Hamada (1910), Kazuhiro Ninomiya (1946), Takashi Sorimachi (1973), Sugizo (1969), and Kyoko Kuroda (1969).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Yukio Edano ranks 343. Before him are Katsuya Okada (1953), Kono Yasui (1880), Shigeru Ishiba (1957), Shōichi Nakagawa (1953), Koto Matsudaira (1903), and Takashi Yokoyama (1913). After him are Tomomi Inada (1959), Yua Mikami (1993), Seiji Maehara (1962), Renhō (1967), Kinuko Tanida (1939), and Seiko Noda (1960).

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