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Emperor Meiji

1852 - 1912

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Mutsuhito (睦仁; 3 November 1852 – 29 July 1912), posthumously honored as Emperor Meiji (明治天皇, Meiji Tennō), was the 122nd emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 1867 until his death in 1912. His reign is associated with the Meiji Restoration of 1868, which ended the Tokugawa shogunate and began rapid changes that transformed Japan from an isolationist, feudal state to an industrialized world power. Emperor Meiji was the first monarch of the Empire of Japan, and presided over the Meiji era. At the time of Mutsuhito's birth, Japan was a feudal and pre-industrial country dominated by the isolationist Tokugawa shogunate and the daimyō subject to it, who ruled over Japan's 270 decentralized domains. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emperor Meiji is the 248th most popular politician (down from 191st in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Japan (down from 7th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Politician.

Emperor Meiji is most famous for the modernization of Japan.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Emperor Meiji ranks 248 out of 19,576. Before him are William Ewart Gladstone, Louis IX of France, Yuri Andropov, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Vallabhbhai Patel. After him are Bashar al-Assad, Harun al-Rashid, Ay, Mustafa I, Barbara Bush, and Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Emperor Meiji ranks 4. Before him are Antoni Gaudí, Albert A. Michelson, and Henri Becquerel. After him are Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Emil Fischer, William Ramsay, Henri Moissan, Charles Taze Russell, Gojong of Korea, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, and Francisco Tárrega. Among people deceased in 1912, Emperor Meiji ranks 1. After him are Henri Poincaré, Joseph Lister, Robert Falcon Scott, August Strindberg, Thomas Andrews, Frédéric Passy, Auguste Beernaert, Jules Massenet, Bram Stoker, Edward Smith, and Frederick VIII of Denmark.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Emperor Meiji ranks 9 out of 6,245. Before him are Hokusai (1760), Hayao Miyazaki (1941), Akihito (1933), Oda Nobunaga (1534), Akira Kurosawa (1910), and Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542). After him are Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Naruhito (1960), Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536), Haruki Murakami (1949), Yukio Mishima (1925), and Yasunari Kawabata (1899).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Emperor Meiji ranks 2. Before him are Hirohito (1901). After him are Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536), Hideki Tojo (1884), Shinzō Abe (1954), Emperor Jimmu (-711), Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894), Lee Myung-bak (1941), Emperor Kōmei (1831), Jiroemon Kimura (1897), Itō Hirobumi (1841), and Sasaki Kojirō (1583).

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