":We have Emperor Meiji and not ""Mutsuhito"" or ""Mutsuhito of Japan"". Likewise, we have Emperor Taishō and not ""Yoshihito of Japan"", and similar for all of the 100+ other deceased emperors of Japan. Wikipedia should be consistent and use Emperor Shōwa with disambiguation pages as necessary. There is a lot of comment on ""most common usage"" in English. ""Most common"" is not necessarily ""most correct"". If wikipedia is to be a meaningful reference and encyclopedia, it should promote usage of the ""most correct"" term over what some people may feel is ""most common"". With the automatic re-direct function, there should not be any confusion at all if the article is titled Emperor Shōwa and the commonly used name ""Hirohito"" redirects to it.   

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