Shōwa era

Quality:

Shōwa era - period of Japanese history within the 20th century CE (1926-1989). Article “Shōwa era” in Simple English Wikipedia has 69.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 54 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in Japanese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Shōwa era”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1549 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 434 times in Simple English Wikipedia (6137^th place) and cited 155209 times in all languages (767^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3528 in July 2015
• Global: #2434 in April 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6025 in April 2012
• Global: #2731 in April 2019

There are 35 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Japanese (ja) 昭和		71.0592
2	Simple English (simple) Shōwa era		69.2816
3	English (en) Shōwa era		65.4533
4	French (fr) Ère Shōwa (1926-1989)		57.5125
5	Spanish (es) Era Shōwa		53.5046
6	Portuguese (pt) Período Shōwa		48.6259
7	Hindi (hi) शोवा युग		48.5985
8	Vietnamese (vi) Thời kỳ Chiêu Hòa		48.0506
9	Chinese (zh) 昭和		47.3649
10	Czech (cs) Období Šówa		30.0273

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 昭和		7 329 720
2	English (en) Shōwa era		4 466 208
3	Chinese (zh) 昭和		1 933 283
4	Russian (ru) Сёва		540 912
5	Spanish (es) Era Shōwa		402 821
6	German (de) Shōwa-Zeit		375 000
7	French (fr) Ère Shōwa (1926-1989)		373 424
8	Korean (ko) 쇼와 시대		342 156
9	Italian (it) Periodo Shōwa		206 400
10	Polish (pl) Shōwa		196 387

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shōwa era		28 318
2	Japanese (ja) 昭和		25 493
3	Chinese (zh) 昭和		7 948
4	Russian (ru) Сёва		2 859
5	Spanish (es) Era Shōwa		2 563
6	French (fr) Ère Shōwa (1926-1989)		1 671
7	German (de) Shōwa-Zeit		1 401
8	Italian (it) Periodo Shōwa		982
9	Korean (ko) 쇼와 시대		678
10	Polish (pl) Shōwa		621

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 昭和		423
2	English (en) Shōwa era		321
3	French (fr) Ère Shōwa (1926-1989)		118
4	Chinese (zh) 昭和		87
5	German (de) Shōwa-Zeit		84
6	Korean (ko) 쇼와 시대		64
7	Italian (it) Periodo Shōwa		54
8	Russian (ru) Сёва		38
9	Spanish (es) Era Shōwa		36
10	Portuguese (pt) Período Shōwa		28

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shōwa era		5
2	Japanese (ja) 昭和		2
3	Arabic (ar) فترة شووا		1
4	Serbian (sr) Шова период		1
5	Vietnamese (vi) Thời kỳ Chiêu Hòa		1
6	Chinese (zh) 昭和		1
7	Catalan (ca) Període Shōwa		0
8	Czech (cs) Období Šówa		0
9	German (de) Shōwa-Zeit		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Ŝova-epoko		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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