# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/emperor-meiji
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:46:56.604Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/emperor-meiji"
name: "Emperor Meiji"
slug: "emperor-meiji"
description: "He reigned as Japan vaulted from feudal isolation to empire in a single lifetime. When Mutsuhito became emperor in 1867, samurai still ruled decentralized domains under a shogun; by his death in 1912, Japan had defeated both China and Russia, annexed Taiwan and Korea, and built the state machinery of a modern power."
tagline: "Emperor of Japan from 1867 until 1912"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Meiji_Emperor.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1852-11-03"
deathDate: "1912-07-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           65.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           29.02596
  currentAttention:     6.821428571428572
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 157
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  - name: "Asia"
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  - name: "19th Century"
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    title: "الامبراطور ميجى"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Mutsuhito was born in 1852 into a Japan sealed by the Tokugawa shogunate, its 270 domains locked under feudal rule. The forced opening to the West in 1854 set domestic pressure building, and when his father Emperor Kōmei died in 1867, samurai from Chōshū and Satsuma fought the Boshin War to dismantle the shogunate and restore imperial power in the young emperor's name. The Meiji Restoration of 1868 proclaimed the empire and began the transformation: the Charter Oath that year, the Constitution in 1889, the Cabinet in 1885, the Diet in 1890, all shaped by the oligarchs called the genrō. Japan's military proved the shift real, routing China in 1894–95 and stunning Russia a decade later. Taiwan came in 1895, Korea in 1910. He died in July 1912, leaving his son Yoshihito an industrial state where he'd inherited a medieval one.