Historical figures in Tokyo
The atlas holds 86 people and 194 moments here, from 1590 to 2026. The most recorded lives are Matsuo Bashō, Hirohito and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Performers, across the Space Age and the Cold War.
Notable people
Hideki Tojo
from 1884 to 1948
7 moments here
Japanese Imperial Army officer and politician who served as Japan's prime minister from 1941 to 1944.…
Hideki Yukawa
in 1907
1 moment here
Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate, awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting mesons.…
Hirohito
from 1901 to 1989
10 moments here
Hirohito (posthumously Emperor Shōwa) was Emperor of Japan from 25 December 1926 until his death in 1989.…
Hokusai
from 1760 to 1849
4 moments here
Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, painter, and printmaker. His documented physical-presence chronology is concentrated in…
Huang Xianfan
in 1935
1 moment here
Huang Xianfan was a Zhuang Chinese historian, ethnologist, educator, and pioneer of field research on minority peoples in Guangxi and neighboring…
Hugo Chávez
in 1999
1 moment here
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías was a Venezuelan army officer and politician who led the failed February 1992 coup attempt, became president of Venezuela in…
Ichirou Mizuki
from 1948 to 2022
7 moments here
Japanese singer, lyricist, composer, voice actor, and actor, born Toshio Hayakawa. Known as the “Emperor of Anime Songs,” Mizuki recorded theme songs…
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
in 1982
1 moment here
Peruvian diplomat and politician who became the fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations (1982–1991).…
Jawaharlal Nehru
in 1957
1 moment here
Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and statesman who became independent India’s first prime minister, serving from 15 August 1947 until his…
Jiang Zemin
from 1992 to 1998
2 moments here
Jiang Zemin was a Chinese electrical engineer and politician who served as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 1989 to 2002,…
Jimmy Carter
in 1979
1 moment here
James Earl Carter Jr. was an American naval officer, Georgia state senator and governor, the 39th president of the United States, and a…
Joan Fontaine
from 1917 to 1935
2 moments here
British-American actress Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, professionally Joan Fontaine, was an Academy Award-winning performer known especially for…
John Lennon
in 1977
1 moment here
English musician, songwriter, artist and peace activist; co-founder of the Beatles. This chronology records documented physical presence at…
José Rizal
in 1888
1 moment here
Filipino nationalist, writer, physician, and polymath whose reform advocacy, novels, exile, trial, and execution made him a central figure in…
Junko Tabei
in 1958
1 moment here
Japanese mountaineer, author, and teacher. Tabei became the first woman to summit Mount Everest in 1975 and the first woman to complete the Seven…
Kenzaburō Ōe
from 1953 to 2013
3 moments here
Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, Nobel laureate, and prominent pacifist and anti-nuclear campaigner.…
Khaleda Zia
in 2005
1 moment here
Bangladeshi politician who was prime minister of Bangladesh in 1991–1996 and 2001–2006, chaired the Bangladesh Nationalist Party from 1984 until her…
Kim Dae-jung
from 1972 to 1973
2 moments here
South Korean politician, democracy activist, and eighth president of South Korea (1998–2003).…
Le Corbusier
in 1955
1 moment here
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, painter, writer, and urban planner.…
Li Keqiang
in 2018
1 moment here
Chinese politician and economist who rose from rural labour in Anhui through the Communist Youth League, led Henan and Liaoning, served as vice…
Liu Xiaobo
in 1989
1 moment here
Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, human-rights activist, and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.…
Louis Armstrong
in 1953
1 moment here
American jazz trumpeter, vocalist, bandleader, and entertainer whose career transformed jazz solo performance and made him an international cultural…
Lu Xun
from 1902 to 1911
4 moments here
Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren; 1881–1936) was a Chinese writer, critic, translator, lecturer, and civil servant whose work was central to modern Chinese…
Marilyn Monroe
in 1954
1 moment here
American actress and model born Norma Jeane Mortenson. This chronology maps verified places where Monroe lived, worked, traveled, performed, filmed,…
Moments
- 1913 Crown Prince residence at Takanawa Hirohito
- 1913 Entered Tokyo Imperial University Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- 1913 Exile in Tokyo Sun Yat-sen
- 1914 Chinese Revolutionary Party convention Sun Yat-sen
- 1915 Marriage to Sun Yat-sen Soong Ching-ling
- 1915 Marriage to Soong Ching-ling Sun Yat-sen
- 1916 Birth in Tokyo Olivia de Havilland
- 1917 Moved to Tokyo for First Higher School Yasunari Kawabata
- 1917 Birth in Tokyo Joan Fontaine
- 1919 Returned to the Tabata home Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- 1920 Entered Tokyo Imperial University Yasunari Kawabata
- 1921 Relationship in Hongo Yasunari Kawabata
- 1921 Founding Bunka Gakuin Yosano Akiko
- 1921 Departed Tokyo for China Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- 1922 Lectures and receives imperial audience in Tokyo Albert Einstein
- 1922 At the Imperial Hotel during Tokyo earthquake Frank Lloyd Wright
- 1923 Joined the Tabata neighborhood vigil Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- 1923 Toranomon assassination attempt Hirohito
- 1924 Tokyo Imperial University graduation Eisaku Satō
- 1924 Lectures at Tokyo Imperial University Rabindranath Tagore
- 1925 Birth in Yotsuya Yukio Mishima
- 1927 Residence in Mabashi Yasunari Kawabata
- 1927 Move to Ogikubo Yosano Akiko
- 1927 Death at the Tabata home Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- 1929 Ueno residence and Asakusa visits Yasunari Kawabata
- 1931 Enrollment at Gakushūin Yukio Mishima
- 1932 Sakuradamon Incident Hirohito
- 1932 Birth in Yanaka Momoko Kōchi
- 1935 American School graduation Joan Fontaine
- 1935 Departed for Tokyo Imperial University Huang Xianfan
- 1937 First visit to Japan Helen Keller
- 1940 Political study in Tokyo Aung San
- 1941 Imperial Palace summons Hideki Tojo
- 1942 Death at her Ogikubo home Yosano Akiko
- 1943 Greater East Asia Conference Hideki Tojo
- 1943 Seventeen-day Japanese tour Sukarno
- 1944 Graduation from Gakushūin High School Yukio Mishima
- 1945 Confinement at Sugamo Prison Hideki Tojo
- 1945 Imperial Palace bomb-shelter night Hirohito
- 1945 Suicide attempt during arrest Hideki Tojo
- 1945 Meeting with General MacArthur Hirohito
- 1945 Arrival in Tokyo after Japan's surrender Syngman Rhee
- 1946 Tokyo war-crimes testimony Puyi
- 1946 Toho audition in Tokyo Toshiro Mifune
- 1947 University of Tokyo graduation Yukio Mishima
- 1948 Tokyo Trial testimony Hideki Tojo
- 1948 Birth in Setagaya Ichirou Mizuki
- 1948 Execution at Sugamo Prison Hideki Tojo
- 1950 Visit to Japan during exile Ngô Đình Diệm
- 1950 Marriage at Aoyama Gakuin Methodist Church Toshiro Mifune