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Emperor Taishō

1879 - 1926

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Yoshihito (嘉仁; 31 August 1879 – 25 December 1926), posthumously honored as Emperor Taishō (大正天皇, Taishō Tennō; Japanese pronunciation: [tai.ɕoː (ten.noꜜː)]), was the 123rd emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 1912 until his death in 1926. His reign, known as the Taishō era, was characterized by a liberal and democratic shift in domestic political power, known as Taishō Democracy. Yoshihito also oversaw Japan's participation in the First World War from 1914 to 1918, the Spanish flu pandemic, and the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923. Born to Emperor Meiji and his concubine Yanagiwara Naruko, Yoshihito was proclaimed crown prince and heir apparent in 1888, his two older siblings having died in infancy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emperor Taishō is the 2nd most popular public worker, the 17th most popular biography from Japan (down from 15th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Public Worker.

Taishō was the emperor of Japan from 1912 to 1926. He was most famous for being the emperor during World War I and World War II.

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Among public workers, Emperor Taishō ranks 2 out of 15. Before him are Draco. After him are Alois Hitler, Joseph Fouché, Mikhail Kalinin, Gaius Maecenas, Demetrius of Phalerum, Robert Walpole, Thomas Cromwell, Ali Hassan al-Majid, Markus Wolf, and John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute.

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Among people born in 1879, Emperor Taishō ranks 7. Before him are Albert Einstein, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Owen Willans Richardson, Paul Klee, and Kazimir Malevich. After him are Otto Hahn, Franz von Papen, Max von Laue, Margaret Sanger, Emiliano Zapata, and Symon Petliura. Among people deceased in 1926, Emperor Taishō ranks 6. Before him are Claude Monet, Antoni Gaudí, Rainer Maria Rilke, Mehmed VI, and Rudolf Christoph Eucken. After him are Harry Houdini, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Olga Constantinovna of Russia, Camillo Golgi, and Sunjong of Korea.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Emperor Taishō ranks 17 out of 6,245. Before him are Naruhito (1960), Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536), Haruki Murakami (1949), Yukio Mishima (1925), Yasunari Kawabata (1899), and Hideki Tojo (1884). After him are Murasaki Shikibu (973), Shinzō Abe (1954), Satoshi Nakamoto (1975), Hiroo Onoda (1922), Yoko Ono (1933), and Isoroku Yamamoto (1884).

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Among PUBLIC WORKERS In Japan

Among public workers born in Japan, Emperor Taishō ranks 1. 

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