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Also Known As Daigo II • Go-Daigo Tennō • Takaharu
Born November 26, 1288 • Kyōto • Japan
Died September 19, 1339 (aged 50) • Japan
Title / Office emperor (1318-1339), Japan
Role In Kemmu Restoration
Ashikaga Takauji
Ashikaga Takauji
Japanese shogun
Kusunoki Masashige
Kusunoki Masashige
Japanese warrior
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Tsutsumi Yasujiro
Japanese politician
Bronze statue of samurai Saigo Takamori standing with his dog on a stone pedestal in Ueno Park, Tokyo, with yellow autumn trees in the background.
Saigō Takamori
Japanese samurai
Statue of Tokugawa Ieyasu in ornate robes holding a bow, with arrows on his back, at the Tosho-gu shrine in Nikko, Japan.
Tokugawa Ieyasu
shogun of Japan
Shinzo Abe
Shinzo Abe
prime minister of Japan
Yamagata Aritomo
Yamagata Aritomo
prime minister of Japan
Sanae Takaichi
Sanae Takaichi
prime minister of Japan
Ito Hirobumi
Itō Hirobumi
prime minister of Japan
Minamoto Yoritomo
Minamoto Yoritomo
Japanese leader
Oda Nobunaga
Oda Nobunaga
Japanese warrior
Yamamoto Isoroku.
Yamamoto Isoroku
Japanese naval officer
Shigeru Ishiba
Shigeru Ishiba
prime minister of Japan
Ii Naosuke
Ii Naosuke
Japanese feudal lord
Konoe Fumimaro.
Konoe Fumimaro
prime minister of Japan
Ozawa Ichirō
Ozawa Ichirō
Japanese politician
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Japanese leader
Kan Naoto.
Kan Naoto
prime minister of Japan
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Ishihara Shintarō
Japanese writer and politician
Naruhito and Masako
Masako
empress of Japan

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