Trending Economists in Japan this year
The 100 most-viewed economists this year on Wikipedia (Japan). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Tarō Asō.
100
Ranked
40,482
Total Views (this year)
1
Tarō Asō
Prime Minister of Japan from 2008 to 2009
2,770
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2
Junichiro Koizumi
Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006
1,809
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views
3
Shibusawa Eiichi
Japanese industrialist known as the "father of Japanese capitalism" (1840-1931)
1,467
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views
4
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
1,263
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views
5
Arsène Wenger
French football manager
1,189
views
views
6
Heizō Takenaka
Japanese economist
1,179
views
views
7
Kohei Saito
Japanese philosopher, Marxist (1987-)
1,158
views
views
8
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
982
views
views
9
Iehiro Tokugawa
Japanese author and translator
920
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views
10
Vladimir Lenin
founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
882
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views
11
Takurō Morinaga
Japanese economic analyst, economist (1957-2025)
871
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views
12
Yōichi Takahashi
Japanese economist
835
views
views
13
Takahashi Korekiyo
Japanese politician (1854-1936)
800
views
views
14
Warren Buffett
American investor, entrepreneur and businessman
756
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views
15
Kazuo Ueda
Japanese economist (1951-)
745
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views
16
Nitobe Inazō
Japanese educator, agricultural economist and diplomat (1862–1933)
714
views
views
17
Jitsurō Terashima
Japanese economist and critic
708
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views
18
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
683
views
views
19
Mikhail Gorbachev
leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)
647
views
views
20
Hayato Ikeda
Prime Minister of Japan from 1960 to 1964
623
views
views
21
Makiko Nakamuro
Japanese economist
606
views
views
22
Ninomiya Sontoku
Japanese philosopher
547
views
views
23
Lee Teng-hui
7-9th President of Republic of China(Taiwan) (1923-2020)
526
views
views
24
Yasuo Fukuda
Prime Minister of Japan from 2007 to 2008
525
views
views
25
Hideo Kumano
Japanese economist (1967-)
514
views
views
26
Kawashima Tatsuhiko
Japanese economist
503
views
views
27
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
493
views
views
28
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Director-General of the World Trade Organization
478
views
views
29
Takuji Aida
Japanese economist
473
views
views
30
Sakichi Toyoda
Japanese inventor and industrialist (1867–1930)
468
views
views
31
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
428
views
views
32
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
394
views
views
33
Kenichi Ohmae
Japanese business theorist (1943-)
389
views
views
34
Kōsuke Motani
Japanese economist（1964-）
374
views
views
35
Arai Hakuseki
Japanese scholar and official (1657–1725)
340
views
views
36
Ayumi Yasutomi
Japanese economist and politician
335
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views
37
Max Weber
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)
333
views
views
38
Ryokichi Minobe
Japanese politician (1904-1984)
320
views
views
39
Kevin Warsh
American governor of the Federal Reserve Board
313
views
views
40
Adam Smith
Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)
311
views
views
41
Heita Kawakatsu
Japanese politician
309
views
views
42
Akie Iriyama
Japanese economist
289
views
views
43
John Forbes Nash
American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)
285
views
views
44
Ferdinand Lassalle
German jurist and socialist (1825–1864)
278
views
views
45
Haruhiko Kuroda
Japanese banker
276
views
views
46
Peter Drucker
American business consultant (1909–2005)
266
views
views
47
Li Keqiang
Premier of the People's Republic of China from 2013 to 2023
254
views
views
48
Alexander Lukashenko
President of the Republic of Belarus
250
views
views
49
Javier Milei
economist, politician and president of Argentina since 2023
244
views
views
50
Masajuro Shiokawa
Japanese politician (1921-2015)
227
views
views
51
Robert McNamara
American businessman and Secretary of Defense (1916-2009)
221
views
views
52
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
217
views
views
53
Yukari Satō
Japanese politician
205
views
views
54
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
President of Turkey since 2014
202
views
views
55
John Stuart Mill
British philosopher and political economist (1806–1873)
201
views
views
56
Kazuhide Uekusa
Japanese economist (1960-)
199
views
views
57
Noriko Hama
Japanese economist
198
views
views
58
Akira Asada
Japanese postmodern critic/curator/Dean:Graduate School/Kyoto University of Art and Design
197
views
views
59
Jim Rogers
American writer
197
views
views
60
Jeremy Bentham Rollweiser
British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748–1832)
194
views
views
61
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588–1679)
194
views
views
62
Pedro Sánchez
Prime Minister of Spain since 2018
192
views
views
63
Taikichiro Mori
Japanese businessman (1904–1993)
192
views
views
64
David Hume
Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)
190
views
views
65
John Maynard Keynes
British economist (1883–1946)
190
views
views
66
Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
186
views
views
67
Erich Fromm
German sociologist and psychoanalyst (1900–1980)
186
views
views
68
Nobuo Ikeda
Japanese economist
184
views
views
69
Milton Friedman
American economist and statistician (1912–2006)
182
views
views
70
Toyohiko Kagawa
Japanese Christian social reformer (1888–1960)
181
views
views
71
Toshihiro Nagahama
Japanese economic commentator (1971-)
179
views
views
72
Friedrich Hayek
Austrian and British economist (1899–1992)
176
views
views
73
Ke Long
173
views
views
74
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
169
views
views
75
Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist (1835–1919)
164
views
views
76
Hiroo Yamagata
Japanese writer
162
views
views
77
Mark Carney
24th prime minister of Canada since 2025
155
views
views
78
Hidetomi Tanaka
Japanese economist and historian
152
views
views
79
Hjalmar Schacht
German politician and economist (1877–1970)
150
views
views
80
Takashi Kadokura
Japanese economist
147
views
views
81
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands
queen consort of the Netherlands (born 1971)
146
views
views
82
Joseph Schumpeter
Austrian political economist (1883–1950)
145
views
views
83
Shinichiro Kurimoto
Japanese academic
145
views
views
84
António de Oliveira Salazar
Prime Minister of Portugal (1889-1970)
144
views
views
85
Wen Jiabao
6th Premier of the People's Republic of China from 2004 to 2013
144
views
views
86
Yosuke Yasuda
Japanese economist
144
views
views
87
Amartya Sen
Indian economist and philosopher (1933-)
142
views
views
88
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
French politician, philosopher, anarchist and socialist (1809-1865)
141
views
views
89
Ikujiro Nonaka
Japanese business theorist
138
views
views
90
Seki Obata
Japanese economist
131
views
views
91
Hirofumi Uzawa
Japanese economist (1928-2021)
125
views
views
92
Cecil John Rhodes
British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa (1853-1902)
123
views
views
93
Itsurō Sakisaka
Japanese economist (1897-1985)
120
views
views
94
Nobuhiro Suzuki
Japanese economist, former bureaucrat, and organic activist
118
views
views
95
Shinzo Koizumi
Japanese economist
118
views
views
96
Yulia Tymoshenko
Ukrainian politician, former Prime Minister
116
views
views
97
Alan Greenspan
American economist and financial advisor (born 1926)
115
views
views
98
Sergei Shoigu
Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation since 2024 and former Russian defense minister
115
views
views
99
Kōjirō Serizawa
novelist in Japan
114
views
views
100
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Indian barrister, leader of the Indian National Congress and founding father of the Republic of India (1875-1950)
114
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