# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/emperor-taisho
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:39:18.605Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/emperor-taisho"
name: "Emperor Taishō"
slug: "emperor-taisho"
description: "He ruled Japan for 14 years but couldn't. Neurological illness hollowed out his reign from the inside, leaving his son to govern as regent while the emperor's name sat atop an era of democratic experiment, world war, and earthquake."
tagline: "Emperor of Japan from 1912 until 1926"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Emperor_Taish%C5%8D.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1879-08-31"
deathDate: "1926-12-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           60.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           26.092408
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
  - name: "Politicians"
    slug: "politicians"
  - name: "Politician"
    slug: "politician"
  - name: "Politics"
    slug: "politics"
  - name: "Royalty"
    slug: "royalty"
  - name: "Japan"
    slug: "japan"
  - name: "Asia"
    slug: "asia"
  - name: "20th Century"
    slug: "20th-century"
sources:
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    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q157052"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Emperor%20Taish%C5%8D"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B7%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%88"
    title: "الامبراطور تايشو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay%C5%9Fo"
    title: "Tayşo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%86%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%81%D1%91"
    title: "Імператар Тайсё"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%99%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE"
    title: "Йошихито"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihito"
    title: "Yoshihito"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A2i-c%C3%A9ng_Ti%C4%95ng-hu%C3%B2ng"
    title: "Dâi-céng Tiĕng-huòng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B4%DB%86"
    title: "تایشۆ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai%C5%A1%C3%B3"
    title: "Taišó"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taish%C5%8D-kejseren"
    title: "Taishō-kejseren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taish%C5%8D"
    title: "Taishō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CF%85%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BA%CF%81%CE%AC%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%82_%CE%A4%CE%B1%CF%8A%CF%83%CF%8C"
    title: "Αυτοκράτορας Ταϊσό"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai%C5%9D%C5%8D"
    title: "Taiŝō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taish%C5%8D_Tenn%C5%8D"
    title: "Taishō Tennō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihito"
    title: "Yoshihito"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taish%C5%8D_enperadorea"
    title: "Taishō enperadorea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%AA%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B4%D9%88"
    title: "امپراتور تایشو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihito"
    title: "Yoshihito"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taish%C5%8D"
    title: "Taishō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taish%C5%8D_Tenn%C5%8D"
    title: "Taishō Tennō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai-ch%C3%ADn_thi%C3%AAn-f%C3%B2ng"
    title: "Thai-chín thiên-fòng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%94%D7%99%D7%98%D7%95"
    title: "יושיהיטו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8B"
    title: "ताइशो"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihito"
    title: "Yoshihito"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B7%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%88"
    title: "الإمبراطور تايشو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in 1879 to Emperor Meiji and a concubine, Yoshihito survived meningitis as an infant and a childhood of recurrent health problems. Named crown prince in 1888 after his older siblings died, he married Sadako Kujō in 1900 and fathered four sons. When his father died in 1912, he became emperor during a rare domestic turn toward liberal democracy—Taishō Democracy—and presided over Japan's entry into World War I, the Spanish flu, and the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake. But neurological disease stripped him of public function by 1919, and in 1921 his eldest son Hirohito took over as regent. He died five years later at 47, his reign a shadowbox for forces he could barely touch.