Trending Economists in Japan this month
The 100 most-viewed economists this month on Wikipedia (Japan). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Tarō Asō.
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Ranked
25,204
Total Views (this month)
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Tarō Asō
Prime Minister of Japan from 2008 to 2009
1,817
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2
Arsène Wenger
French football manager
1,075
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views
3
Junichiro Koizumi
Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006
958
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4
Shibusawa Eiichi
Japanese industrialist known as the "father of Japanese capitalism" (1840-1931)
942
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views
5
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
748
views
views
6
Heizō Takenaka
Japanese economist
643
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views
7
Kohei Saito
Japanese philosopher, Marxist (1987-)
631
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views
8
Vladimir Lenin
founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
585
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views
9
Takurō Morinaga
Japanese economic analyst, economist (1957-2025)
583
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views
10
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
582
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views
11
Yōichi Takahashi
Japanese economist
533
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views
12
Hideo Kumano
Japanese economist (1967-)
505
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views
13
Takahashi Korekiyo
Japanese politician (1854-1936)
480
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views
14
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Director-General of the World Trade Organization
474
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views
15
Mikhail Gorbachev
leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)
457
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views
16
Warren Buffett
American investor, entrepreneur and businessman
437
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views
17
Iehiro Tokugawa
Japanese author and translator
423
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views
18
Nitobe Inazō
Japanese educator, agricultural economist and diplomat (1862–1933)
400
views
views
19
Lee Teng-hui
7-9th President of Republic of China(Taiwan) (1923-2020)
390
views
views
20
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
381
views
views
21
Kazuo Ueda
Japanese economist (1951-)
379
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views
22
Hayato Ikeda
Prime Minister of Japan from 1960 to 1964
362
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views
23
Takuji Aida
Japanese economist
322
views
views
24
Ninomiya Sontoku
Japanese philosopher
319
views
views
25
Kōsuke Motani
Japanese economist（1964-）
318
views
views
26
Yasuo Fukuda
Prime Minister of Japan from 2007 to 2008
302
views
views
27
Kenichi Ohmae
Japanese business theorist (1943-)
293
views
views
28
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
284
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views
29
Sakichi Toyoda
Japanese inventor and industrialist (1867–1930)
284
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views
30
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
282
views
views
31
Kevin Warsh
American governor of the Federal Reserve Board
274
views
views
32
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
270
views
views
33
Arai Hakuseki
Japanese scholar and official (1657–1725)
243
views
views
34
Max Weber
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)
232
views
views
35
Adam Smith
Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)
225
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36
Jitsurō Terashima
Japanese economist and critic
219
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views
37
Ayumi Yasutomi
Japanese economist and politician
217
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views
38
Ryokichi Minobe
Japanese politician (1904-1984)
196
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views
39
Peter Drucker
American business consultant (1909–2005)
195
views
views
40
Heita Kawakatsu
Japanese politician
192
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41
Kawashima Tatsuhiko
Japanese economist
192
views
views
42
Haruhiko Kuroda
Japanese banker
170
views
views
43
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
167
views
views
44
John Forbes Nash
American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)
158
views
views
45
Alexander Lukashenko
President of the Republic of Belarus
157
views
views
46
Masajuro Shiokawa
Japanese politician (1921-2015)
152
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views
47
Makiko Nakamuro
Japanese economist
149
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views
48
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
President of Turkey since 2014
146
views
views
49
Jeremy Bentham Rollweiser
British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748–1832)
139
views
views
50
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588–1679)
139
views
views
51
Robert McNamara
American businessman and Secretary of Defense (1916-2009)
136
views
views
52
John Stuart Mill
British philosopher and political economist (1806–1873)
134
views
views
53
Hidetomi Tanaka
Japanese economist and historian
132
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views
54
Yukari Satō
Japanese politician
132
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views
55
Akira Asada
Japanese postmodern critic/curator/Dean:Graduate School/Kyoto University of Art and Design
131
views
views
56
Jim Rogers
American writer
131
views
views
57
Li Keqiang
Premier of the People's Republic of China from 2013 to 2023
131
views
views
58
Milton Friedman
American economist and statistician (1912–2006)
127
views
views
59
Toshihiro Nagahama
Japanese economic commentator (1971-)
126
views
views
60
Toyohiko Kagawa
Japanese Christian social reformer (1888–1960)
124
views
views
61
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
French politician, philosopher, anarchist and socialist (1809-1865)
124
views
views
62
Nobuo Ikeda
Japanese economist
123
views
views
63
John Maynard Keynes
British economist (1883–1946)
123
views
views
64
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
122
views
views
65
Javier Milei
economist, politician and president of Argentina since 2023
122
views
views
66
Hiroo Yamagata
Japanese writer
121
views
views
67
Kazuhide Uekusa
Japanese economist (1960-)
121
views
views
68
Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
118
views
views
69
Erich Fromm
German sociologist and psychoanalyst (1900–1980)
118
views
views
70
Ke Long
117
views
views
71
Yosuke Yasuda
Japanese economist
113
views
views
72
David Hume
Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)
112
views
views
73
Friedrich Hayek
Austrian and British economist (1899–1992)
110
views
views
74
Taikichiro Mori
Japanese businessman (1904–1993)
110
views
views
75
Joseph Schumpeter
Austrian political economist (1883–1950)
107
views
views
76
Ikujiro Nonaka
Japanese business theorist
104
views
views
77
Mark Carney
24th prime minister of Canada since 2025
100
views
views
78
Itsurō Sakisaka
Japanese economist (1897-1985)
95
views
views
79
Hjalmar Schacht
German politician and economist (1877–1970)
93
views
views
80
Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist (1835–1919)
91
views
views
81
Raymond Aron
French philosopher, sociologist, journalist, and political scientist (1905–1983)
91
views
views
82
Shinichiro Kurimoto
Japanese academic
91
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views
83
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Indian barrister, leader of the Indian National Congress and founding father of the Republic of India (1875-1950)
90
views
views
84
Tatsuhiko Yoshizaki
Japanese economist
88
views
views
85
Thomas Piketty
French economist (born 1971)
85
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views
86
Amartya Sen
Indian economist and philosopher (1933-)
84
views
views
87
Masako Ii
Japanese economist
84
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views
88
Daniel Kahneman
Israeli-American psychologist and economist (1934–2024)
84
views
views
89
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands
queen consort of the Netherlands (born 1971)
83
views
views
90
Akie Iriyama
Japanese economist
81
views
views
91
Takeshi Nakano
Japanese bureaucrat, critic
79
views
views
92
Viktor Yanukovych
President of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014
79
views
views
93
Hirofumi Uzawa
Japanese economist (1928-2021)
79
views
views
94
António de Oliveira Salazar
Prime Minister of Portugal (1889-1970)
78
views
views
95
Wen Jiabao
6th Premier of the People's Republic of China from 2004 to 2013
78
views
views
96
Nobuhiro Suzuki
Japanese economist, former bureaucrat, and organic activist
77
views
views
97
Cecil John Rhodes
British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa (1853-1902)
77
views
views
98
Noriko Hama
Japanese economist
76
views
views
99
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
American businessman, politician and diplomat (1888–1969)
76
views
views
100
Pedro Sánchez
Prime Minister of Spain since 2018
75
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