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  2. The Top 100 Historical Persons in Japan - Wikipedia

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    The Top 100 Historical Persons (超大型歴史アカデミー史上初1億3000万人が選ぶニッポン人が好きな偉人ベスト100発表 [1] in Japanese), aired on Nippon Television on May 7, 2006. The program featured the results of a survey that asked Japanese people to choose their favorite great person from history. The show ...

  3. List of Japanese people - Wikipedia

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    Modern Japan (Imperial and Postwar) (1867–present) 122: 1867–1912 Emperor Meiji: Mutsuhito First Emperor of the Empire of Japan. 123: 1912–1926 Emperor Taishō: Yoshihito Crown Prince Hirohito served as Sesshō (Prince Regent) 1921–1926. 124: 1926–1989 Emperor Shōwa: Hirohito Served as Sesshō (Prince Regent) 1921–1926.

  4. List of people on the postage stamps of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Saluting aviator on 15 sen stamp from 1942. The Japanese Empire issued its first postage stamps in April 1871. In 1896 the first persons to be depicted on a stamp were Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa (1847–1895) and Prince Arisugawa Taruhito (1835–1895) in honor of their role in the First Sino-Japanese War that ended one year earlier.

  5. List of emperors of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The terms Tennō ('Emperor', 天皇), as well as Nihon ('Japan', 日本), were not adopted until the late 7th century AD. [ 6 ] [ 2 ] In the nengō system which has been in use since the late 7th century, years are numbered using the Japanese era name and the number of years which have elapsed since the start of that nengō era.

  6. Benkei - Wikipedia

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    Saitō Musashibō Benkei (西塔武蔵坊弁慶, 1155–1189), popularly known by the mononym Benkei, was a Japanese warrior monk who lived in the latter years of the Heian Period (794–1185). Benkei led a varied life, first becoming a monk, then a mountain ascetic, and then a rogue warrior.

  7. Category:Lists of Japanese people - Wikipedia

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    List of Japanese spies, 1930–1945; List of spouses of prime ministers of Japan; List of people on the postage stamps of Japan; Japanese students in the United Kingdom; List of Japanese supercentenarians

  8. Nakahama Manjirō - Wikipedia

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    Nakahama Manjirō (中濱 万次郎, January 27, 1827 – November 12, 1898), also known as John Manjirō (or John Mung), [1] was a Japanese samurai and translator who was one of the first Japanese people to visit the United States and an important translator during the opening of Japan.

  9. List of Japanese Nobel laureates and nominees - Wikipedia

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    History of Japanese Literary Circles (1955–1969) [70] Kōjirō Serizawa (1897–1993) Japan: Tatsuzō Ishikawa: 2 July 1905 Yokote, Akita, Japan 31 January 1985 Tokyo, Japan 1970 Sōbō (1935) Soldiers Alive (1945) Kinkanshoku (1966) [71] Peace: Nagao Ariga 13 November 1860 Osaka, Japan 17 May 1921 Tokyo, Japan 1909 No motivation given. [72 ...