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Yuriko Koike

1952 - Today

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Yuriko Koike (小池 百合子, Koike Yuriko; born 15 July 1952) is a Japanese politician, who has served as the Governor of Tokyo since 2016. Previously, she was also served as a member of the House of Councillors from 1992 to 1993, a member of the House of Representatives from 1993 to 2016, Minister of the Environment under from 2003 to 2006, and Minister of Defense in between July and August 2007. Born and raised in Ashiya, a wealthy, small, and popular city near Kobe in Hyōgo Prefecture, Koike graduated from Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt in 1976, and served as a member of the House of Representatives of Japan from 1993 until 2016, when she resigned to run for Governor of Tokyo. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuriko Koike has received more than 883,245 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Yuriko Koike is the 7,859th most popular politician (down from 7,776th in 2019), the 624th most popular biography from Japan (down from 621st in 2019) and the 245th most popular Japanese Politician.

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  • 880k

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  • 62.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yuriko Koike ranks 7,859 out of 19,576. Before her are Princess Margaret Yolande of Savoy, Xu Shichang, Prince Ernst August of Hanover, Ismail Khan, Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq, and Henry Beaufort. After her are Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover, Fazlollah Zahedi, Nouhak Phoumsavanh, Otto Henry, Elector Palatine, Carmen Pereira, and Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Yuriko Koike ranks 134. Before her are Jack W. Szostak, François Berléand, David Icke, Vandana Shiva, Graham Greene, and Clive Barker. After her are Uljana Semjonova, Lars Peter Hansen, Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, Dirceu, and Chuck Lorre.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yuriko Koike ranks 624 out of 6,245. Before her are Hasui Kawase (1883), Zenkō Suzuki (1911), Kaneto Shindo (1912), Mineko Iwasaki (1949), Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), and Senjūrō Hayashi (1876). After her are Keigo Higashino (1958), Kyōka Izumi (1873), Nobuyuki Kato (1920), Tadao Takayama (1904), Kon Ichikawa (1915), and Koji Miyata (1923).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Yuriko Koike ranks 245. Before her are Ukita Hideie (1573), Tsutomu Hata (1935), Hōjō Sōun (1432), Hitoshi Ashida (1887), Zenkō Suzuki (1911), and Senjūrō Hayashi (1876). After her are Chiang Wei-kuo (1916), Sen Katayama (1859), Masaharu Homma (1888), Iwakura Tomomi (1825), Sōsuke Uno (1922), and Keisuke Okada (1868).

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