The other point of view
Posted by Lance on 10 Apr 2007 at 6:56 pm | Tagged as: social science, History, Lance's Page
(Via Tyler Cowen)
Here we have a list of history’s 100 most influential people from the viewpoint of the Japanese. The rest are below the fold, but here are the top 25. Videos and other commentary at the link.
- Sakamoto Ryoma
- Napoleon I
- Oda Nobunaga
- Saigo Takamori
- Miyamoto no Yoshitsune
- Jean of Arc
- Hideyoshi Toyotomi
- Albert Einstein
- Yutaka Ozaki
- Akechi Mitsuhide
- Genghis Khan
- Tokugaya Ieyasu
- Thomas Edison
- Florence Nightengale
- Chiune Sugihara
- Kyu Sakamoto
- Hijikata Toshizo
- Rikidozan
- Yoshida Shoin
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Prince Shotoku
- George Washington
- Sanada Yukimura
- Mother Teresa
- Yujiro Ishihara
- Kakuei Tanaka
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Abraham Lincoln
- Oishi Yoshio
- Okita Soji
- Christopher Columbus
- Admiral Togo Heihachiro
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Andy Hug
- Amakusa Shiro
- Hideyo Noguchi
- Bruce Lee
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Abe no Seimei
- Walt Disney
- Kondo Isami
- Date Masamune
- Akira Kurosawa
- Julius Caesar
- Chosuke Ikariya
- Audrey Hepburn
- Liu Bei
- Ryunosuke Akutagawa
- John Lennon
- Takasugi Shinsaku
- Naomi Uemura
- Freddy Mercury
- Isoroku Yamamoto
- Osamu Tezuka
- Ninomiya Sontoku
- Charlie Chaplin
- Diana, Princess of Wales
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Ryotaro Shiba
- Pablo Picasso
- John F Kennedy
- Yuri Gagarin
- “Giant†Baba
- Kong Ming
- Anne Frank
- Daijiro Kato
- Cao Cao
- Tokugawa Yoshimune
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Elvis Presley
- Galileo Galilei
- Queen Himiko
- Yusaku Matsuda
- Pierre and Marie Curie
- Ferdinand Magellan
- James Dean
- Yukio Mishima
- Taira no Masakado
- Hokusai
- Sen no Rikyu
- Kiyoshi Atsumi
- Federic Chopin
- Babe Ruth
- Sun Yat-sen
- Ayrton Senna
- Takanohana Koji
- William Shakespeare
- Shirasu Jiro
- Taira no Kiyomori
- Eisaku Sato
- The Wright Brothers
- Stanely Kubrick
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Hiraga Gennai
- Miyamoto Musashi
- Eiji Tsuburaya
- Abebe Bikila
- Eiji Sawamura
- Isaac Newton
- Matthew Calbraith Perry
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It’s the results of a survey, according to the site. Freddy Mercury gets a lot of love at #52!
I went ahead and added in the rest of the list, but the site has some interesting observations.
Frankly that is just bizarre.
You should have checked out the video of Joan of Arc. The visual effects are awesome!
Also, it’s actually the most influential "heroes" from what I understood. Looking at the list, people like Ryoko and Takamori give you a clue as to how the people were chosen. Of course, none of that explains why Freddy Mercury is on the list, unless he played some hero in a movie.
He wrote the theme to "Flash Gordon"! And Bohemian Rhapsody! How heroic is that? How he finished behind Julius Ceasar I can’t undertand. Caesar couldn’t hit a sustained high note to save his life.
True, it is on people who were influential for their heroism, thus no Hitler or Stalin. It does include Genghis Khan, though I can see that as well. John Kerry though doesn’t truck with Ghenghis Khan fans.
Michael, he was obviously a Guitar Hero!
Robby: That MUST be it.
Lance: Don’t knock Jingis. He ruled over the largest empire ever seen on earth and his grandson, Kublai, started the Yuan Dynasty in China as well as building a "stately pleasure dome" in Xanadu. Most important, however, was that Jingis opened up the trade routes between the East and West, ushering in globalization (and, unfortunately, the Black Death). Without that, we’d have no fun games to play in the pool in the Summer.
Chris: I don’t know. Lou Gramm was a Jukebox Hero and he’s not on the list.
Michael: You know how the Japanese feel about Foreigners.
Yeah, I suppose they tend to be rather cold to them. Some might say as "cold as ice."
This "feels like the first time" we had a long string of puns.
Are you playing head games with me, Robby? Because I was going to say the same thing. I’ve been waiting for a thread like this, and feels like the first time … the very first time … that we’ve done this in forever. It’s almost like I’ve got fire, in my veins, that I was looking forward to just such a thread so badly. One could say it was urgent (urgent, urgent, urgent, urgent … emergency).