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Trending Economists in Japan this week

The 100 most-viewed economists this week on Wikipedia (Japan). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Jitsurō Terashima.

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429
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Jitsurō Terashima
Japanese economist and critic
Person
65
views
2
Tarō Asō
Prime Minister of Japan from 2008 to 2009
📚 13 citations Person
20
views
3
Kohei Saito
Japanese philosopher, Marxist (1987-)
📚 6 citations Person
16
views
4
Shibusawa Eiichi
Japanese industrialist known as the "father of Japanese capitalism" (1840-1931)
📚 11 citations Person
15
views
5
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
📚 63 citations Person
14
views
6
Ferdinand Tönnies
Ferdinand Tönnies
German sociologist, economist and philosopher (1855–1936)
📚 22 citations Person
11
views
7
Junichiro Koizumi
Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006
📚 8 citations Person
11
views
8
Arsène Wenger
French football manager
📚 9 citations Person
8
views
9
Mikhail Gorbachev
leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)
📚 38 citations Person
8
views
10
Warren Buffett
American investor, entrepreneur and businessman
📚 25 citations Person
7
views
11
Taikichiro Mori
Japanese businessman (1904–1993)
📚 1 citation Person
7
views
12
Akira Asada
Japanese postmodern critic/curator/Dean:Graduate School/Kyoto University of Art and Design
📚 8 citations Person
6
views
13
Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
📚 43 citations Person
6
views
14
Takurō Morinaga
Japanese economic analyst, economist (1957-2025)
📚 8 citations Person
6
views
15
David Hume
David Hume
Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)
📚 44 citations Person
6
views
16
Yasuo Fukuda
Prime Minister of Japan from 2007 to 2008
📚 8 citations Person
6
views
17
Ninomiya Sontoku
Japanese philosopher
📚 6 citations Person
5
views
18
Lee Teng-hui
7-9th President of Republic of China(Taiwan) (1923-2020)
📚 12 citations Person
5
views
19
Takahashi Korekiyo
Takahashi Korekiyo
Japanese politician (1854-1936)
📚 8 citations Person
5
views
20
Heizō Takenaka
Japanese economist
📚 18 citations Person
5
views
21
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
📚 57 citations Person
5
views
22
Ryokichi Minobe
Ryokichi Minobe
Japanese politician (1904-1984)
📚 7 citations Person
4
views
23
António de Oliveira Salazar
António de Oliveira Salazar
Prime Minister of Portugal (1889-1970)
📚 21 citations Person
4
views
24
Ke Long
Person
4
views
25
Yōichi Takahashi
Japanese economist
Person
4
views
26
Iehiro Tokugawa
Japanese author and translator
📚 7 citations Person
4
views
27
Makiko Nakamuro
Japanese economist
Person
4
views
28
Arai Hakuseki
Arai Hakuseki
Japanese scholar and official (1657–1725)
📚 13 citations Person
4
views
29
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
📚 47 citations Person
4
views
30
Jim Rogers
American writer
📚 8 citations Person
4
views
31
Jeffrey Sachs
American economist (born 1954)
📚 32 citations Person
4
views
32
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
📚 37 citations Person
4
views
33
Eijirō Ono
Japanese businessman
Person
4
views
34
Lawrence Summers
Lawrence Summers
American economist and government official (born 1954)
📚 40 citations Person
4
views
35
Hayato Ikeda
Prime Minister of Japan from 1960 to 1964
📚 11 citations Person
3
views
36
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588–1679)
📚 37 citations Person
3
views
37
Kevin Warsh
American governor of the Federal Reserve Board
Person
3
views
38
Nitobe Inazō
Nitobe Inazō
Japanese educator, agricultural economist and diplomat (1862–1933)
📚 12 citations Person
3
views
39
Peter Kropotkin
Peter Kropotkin
Russian revolutionary socialist and philosopher (1842–1921)
📚 34 citations Person
3
views
40
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
📚 52 citations Person
3
views
41
Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
English philosopher and political theorist (1820–1903)
📚 37 citations Person
3
views
42
Peter Drucker
American business consultant (1909–2005)
📚 22 citations Person
3
views
43
Alexander Lukashenko
President of the Republic of Belarus
📚 29 citations Person
3
views
44
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk
German nobleman, jurist, and senior Nazi government official (1887–1977)
📚 16 citations Person
3
views
45
Adam Smith
Adam Smith
Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)
📚 39 citations Person
3
views
46
Sheryl Sandberg
American technology executive, activist, and author
📚 23 citations Person
3
views
47
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
📚 43 citations Person
3
views
48
Edmund Phelps
American economist
📚 28 citations Person
3
views
49
Yoshinobu Oikawa
Japanese historian and economist
Person
3
views
50
César Gaviria
President of Colombia
📚 9 citations Person
3
views
51
Barry Eichengreen
American economist (born 1952)
📚 22 citations Person
2
views
52
Sam Walton
Sam Walton
American businessman (1918–1992)
📚 17 citations Person
2
views
53
Jeremy Bentham Rollweiser
Jeremy Bentham Rollweiser
British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748–1832)
📚 32 citations Person
2
views
54
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
British philosopher and political economist (1806–1873)
📚 37 citations Person
2
views
55
Paul Wolfowitz
Paul Wolfowitz
American politician and diplomat (born 1943)
📚 8 citations Person
2
views
56
Fuhito Kojima
Japanese economist
Person
2
views
57
Satoru Takayanagi
Japanese economist (1931-1998)
Person
2
views
58
Il Pak
Japanese economist
📚 4 citations Person
2
views
59
Immanuel Wallerstein
American sociologist and economic historian (1930–2019)
📚 19 citations Person
2
views
60
Haruhiko Kuroda
Japanese banker
📚 14 citations Person
2
views
61
Shinzo Koizumi
Japanese economist
Person
2
views
62
Ken Kusunoki
Japanese business theorist
Person
2
views
63
Noriko Hama
Japanese economist
Person
2
views
64
Osamu Shimomura
Japanese economist
Person
2
views
65
Kenichi Ohmae
Japanese business theorist (1943-)
📚 14 citations Person
2
views
66
Shōichi Asajima
Japanese historian and economist
Person
2
views
67
Takuji Aida
Japanese economist
Person
2
views
68
Toyohiko Kagawa
Japanese Christian social reformer (1888–1960)
📚 17 citations Person
2
views
69
Yulia Tymoshenko
Ukrainian politician, former Prime Minister
📚 15 citations Person
2
views
70
Johan Rockström
Swedish environmental scientist (born 1965)
📚 26 citations Person
2
views
71
Hiroshi Katō
Japanese economist
Person
2
views
72
Kwak Yang-chun
South Korean economist
📚 4 citations Person
2
views
73
Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman
American economist and statistician (1912–2006)
📚 52 citations Person
2
views
74
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
📚 41 citations Person
2
views
75
Ashraf Ghani
President of Afghanistan from 2014 to 2021 (17 11 2006
📚 16 citations Person
2
views
76
Viktor Yanukovych
President of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014
📚 23 citations Person
2
views
77
Hirofumi Uzawa
Japanese economist (1928-2021)
📚 18 citations Person
2
views
78
Daniel Bernoulli
Daniel Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician (1700-1782)
📚 26 citations Person
2
views
79
Tsutomu Watanabe
Japanese economist
Person
2
views
80
Kei Mori
Japanese economist (1932-1990)
Person
2
views
81
Andrei Gromyko
Soviet diplomat
📚 16 citations Person
2
views
82
Dan Ariely
Israeli-American professor of psychology and behavioral economics
📚 9 citations Person
2
views
83
Max Weber
Max Weber
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)
📚 58 citations Person
2
views
84
Rafael Correa
Rafael Correa
President of Ecuador (2007 - 2017) y Prófugo de la Justicia
📚 26 citations Person
2
views
85
Tadanobu Okuyama
Japanese economist
Person
2
views
86
Pedro Sánchez
Pedro Sánchez
Prime Minister of Spain since 2018
📚 37 citations Person
2
views
87
Torazō Ninagawa
Japanese economist (1897-1981)
📚 1 citation Person
2
views
88
Alexander Bogdanov
Alexander Bogdanov
Russian physician, philosopher and revolutionary (1873–1928)
📚 21 citations Person
2
views
89
Hyōe Ōuchi
Japanese economist
📚 5 citations Person
2
views
90
Gustavo Petro
Gustavo Petro
34th President of Colombia since 2022
📚 23 citations Person
2
views
91
Sakichi Toyoda
Sakichi Toyoda
Japanese inventor and industrialist (1867–1930)
📚 3 citations Person
2
views
92
Mark Carney
24th prime minister of Canada since 2025
📚 36 citations Person
2
views
93
John Perkins
American author
📚 15 citations Person
1
views
94
Motohiro Sato
Japanese economist
Person
1
views
95
Naraomi Imamura
Japanese agricultural economist
Person
1
views
96
Miklós Németh
Hungarian economist and politician
📚 12 citations Person
1
views
97
Masajuro Shiokawa
Masajuro Shiokawa
Japanese politician (1921-2015)
📚 6 citations Person
1
views
98
Charles Dow
Charles Dow
American journalist (1851–1902)
📚 9 citations Person
1
views
99
Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan
7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018)
📚 56 citations Person
1
views
100
Takamitsu Sawa
Japanese economist
Person
1
views