The Top 100 Historical Persons in Japan
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 featured several re-enactments of scenes from the lives of the people on the list.[2]
The survey asked Japanese people to name their most-liked historical figures, not the most influential. The selection was not restricted to Japanese people, and only about two thirds of the names are Japanese, mostly important Japanese historical figures, such as samurai, prime ministers, war leaders, authors, poets. and popular Meiji restoration figures.[3]
The program was followed up with a women-only Top-100 list (ニッポン人が好きな100人の美人) which aired September 23, 2006,[4] and History’s 100 Most Influential People: Hero Edition which aired in March 2007.[5]
List
The final list was as follows:[6]
- Oda Nobunaga
- Sakamoto Ryōma
- Thomas Edison
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- Matsushita Konosuke
- Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Noguchi Hideyo
- Mother Teresa
- Helen Keller
- Hijikata Toshizo
- Saigo Takamori
- Princess Diana
- Albert Einstein
- Misora Hibari
- Fukuzawa Yukichi
- Anne Frank
- Florence Nightingale
- Yoshida Shigeru
- Walt Disney
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Minamoto Yoshitsune
- Ayrton Senna
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Tezuka Osamu
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Prince Shotoku
- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
- Zhuge Liang
- Miyamoto Musashi
- Ozaki Yutaka
- Audrey Hepburn
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Soseki Natsume
- Takasugi Shinsaku
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Yamamoto Isoroku
- Miyazawa Kenji
- John F. Kennedy
- Ninomiya Sontoku
- Kondo Isami
- Okubo Toshimichi
- Takeda Shingen
- Himiko
- Ino Tadataka
- Ishihara Yujiro
- Sen no Rikyu
- Charlie Chaplin
- Sugihara Chiune
- Date Masamune
- Tanaka Giichi
- Bruce Lee
- Okita Souji
- Matsuda Yusaku
- Marie-Antoinette
- Oishi Kuranosuke
- Ikariya Chosuke
- Wright Brothers
- Katsu Kaishu
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Yoshida Shoin
- Kurosawa Akira
- Uesugi Kenshin
- Marie Curie
- Sato Eisaku
- Sanada Yukimura
- Cao Cao
- Kato Daijiro
- Cleopatra
- Tokugawa Mitsukuni
- Elvis Presley
- Ogi Akira
- Togo Heihachiro
- Christopher Columbus
- Ito Hirobumi
- Pablo Picasso
- Marco Polo
- Albert Schweitzer
- Yosano Akiko
- Andy Hug
- Tsuburaya Eiji
- Joan of Arc
- Honda Minako
- Uemura Naomi
- Sugita Genpaku
- Confucius
- Jean Henri Casimir Fabre
- Natsume Masako
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Honda Soichiro
- Anne Sullivan
- Shohei "Giant" Baba
- Abraham Lincoln
- Dazai Osamu
- Frédéric Chopin
- Ikkyu
- Akechi Mitsuhide
- Isaac Newton
- Matsuo Basho
- Arthur Conan Doyle
See also
References
- ↑ "The Top 100 Historical Persons in Japanの意味 - 英和辞典 Weblio辞書". Ejje.weblio.jp. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
- ↑ "Japanese rank their favorite 100 historical figures - Japan Probe". Retrieved 12 July 2016.
- ↑ "ニッポン人が好きな偉人ベスト100・・・ オイラにひとこと言わせろよ!/ウェブリブログ". Sin-sei.at.webry.info. 2007-03-30. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
- ↑ "History's 100 Most Influential People: Hero Edition (Video) - Japan Probe". Retrieved 12 July 2016.
- ↑ "History's 100 Most Influential People: Hero Edition (Video) - Japan Probe". Retrieved 12 July 2016.
- ↑ ニッポン人が好きな偉人ベスト100(美女編) (Japanese)
External links
- NTV: 「100人の偉人 勇気をくれたスター編」 日本人が好きな100人のスター (Japanese)