Trending Linguists in Japan this month
The 100 most-viewed linguists this month on Wikipedia (Japan). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Nakahama Manjirō.
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Ranked
12,724
Total Views (this month)
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Nakahama Manjirō
English interpreter
1,450
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2
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
773
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3
Kūkai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774–835)
769
views
views
4
Shimizu Usaburō
(1829-1910)
656
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views
5
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
602
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views
6
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915–2016)
565
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views
7
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
560
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views
8
Mori Ōgai
Japanese novelist and army physician (1862-1922)
464
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views
9
Nitobe Inazō
Japanese educator, agricultural economist and diplomat (1862–1933)
314
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views
10
Kunio Yanagita
Japanese folklorist (1875–1962)
235
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views
11
Fujiwara no Teika
poet and court noble (1162–1241)
223
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views
12
Ogyū Sorai
Japanese philosopher (1666–1728)
220
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views
13
Sugita Genpaku
Japanese scholar
212
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14
Shūmei Ōkawa
Japanese nationalist intellectual (1886–1957)
180
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views
15
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
174
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views
16
Edwin O. Reischauer
American diplomat (1910-1990)
172
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views
17
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
172
views
views
18
Hanawa Hokiichi
Japanese philosopher (1746-1821)
166
views
views
19
Motoori Norinaga
Japanese scholar and philosopher (1730–1801)
164
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views
20
Yone Noguchi
Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism (1875-1947)
158
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views
21
Shinobu Orikuchi
Japanese writer and academic (1887–1953)
158
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views
22
Tokiko Iwatani
Japanese lyricist, linguist and translator (1916–2013)
149
views
views
23
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
147
views
views
24
Nishi Amane
Japanese philosopher and politician (1829–1897)
141
views
views
25
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
137
views
views
26
Tatsuhiko Shibusawa
Japanese novelist, translator, literary critic, art critic (1928–1987)
133
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views
27
Fūtarō Yamada
Japanese novelist (1922–2001)
132
views
views
28
Natsuki Ikezawa
Japanese writer
128
views
views
29
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai Royal
112
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views
30
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
112
views
views
31
Kazuko Shiraishi
Japanese poet (1931–2024)
107
views
views
32
Donald Keene
Japanese/American academic (1922–2019)
100
views
views
33
Hirata Atsutane
conventionally ranked as one of the four great men of kokugaku studies, and one of the most significant theologians of the Shintō religion
94
views
views
34
Tsuneari Fukuda
Japanese writer (1912–1994)
94
views
views
35
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
93
views
views
36
Kanda Naibu
Japanese educator
89
views
views
37
Kyōsuke Kindaichi
Japanese linguist (1882–1971)
86
views
views
38
Sankyū Tatsuo
Japanese owarai tarento and tarento
75
views
views
39
Tatsuo Hori
writer, poet, and translator in Japan (1904–1953)
75
views
views
40
Naoyuki Akaso
Japanese linguist and educator
73
views
views
41
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
67
views
views
42
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
67
views
views
43
Taijun Takeda
Japanese novelist and Buddhist priest (1912–1976)
65
views
views
44
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
64
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views
45
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
63
views
views
46
Masako Hachisuka
Japanese anglicist
62
views
views
47
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
61
views
views
48
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
59
views
views
49
Toshihiko Izutsu
Japanese author of many books on Islam and other religions (1914–1993)
57
views
views
50
Inuhiko Yomota
Japanese writer
57
views
views
51
Shōichi Watanabe
English scholar and critic
55
views
views
52
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
51
views
views
53
Tadao Umesao
anthropologist
50
views
views
54
Anjirō
Japanese translator
50
views
views
55
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
49
views
views
56
Hideho Kindaichi
Japanese linguist
48
views
views
57
Ikuhiko Hata
Japanese historian
48
views
views
58
James Curtis Hepburn
American physician, educator, and phonologist of Japanese (1815–1911)
46
views
views
59
Hajime Nakamura
Japanese philosopher (1912-1999)
46
views
views
60
Haruhiko Kindaichi
Japanese lexicographer (1913–2004)
45
views
views
61
Kamo no Mabuchi
Japanese philosopher
45
views
views
62
José Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)
44
views
views
63
Ryūsui Seiryōin
Japanese writer
44
views
views
64
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)
42
views
views
65
Ueda Kazutoshi
Japanese linguist
38
views
views
66
Ueda Akinari
Japanese writer (1734–1809)
38
views
views
67
Shinmura Izuru
Japanese linguist (1876–1967)
36
views
views
68
Kazuo Hirotsu
Japanese novelist and literary critic (1891-1968)
36
views
views
69
Minamoto no Shitagō
Japanese poet
34
views
views
70
Yamada Bimyō
Japanese writer (1868–1910)
33
views
views
71
Naitō Torajirō
Japanese historian and sinologist (1866–1934)
33
views
views
72
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)
32
views
views
73
Keichū
Buddhist priest and scholar
31
views
views
74
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
31
views
views
75
Ikuma Arishima
Japanese artist (1882-1974)
30
views
views
76
Haruka Orth
American actress
30
views
views
77
Hidetoshi Kenbō
Japanese linguist
29
views
views
78
Yoko Matsuoka McClain
Japanese language scholar
28
views
views
79
Eiichi Chino
Japanese linguist and translator (1932-2002)
28
views
views
80
Ōtsuki Fumihiko
Japanese linguist and lexicographer (1847–1928)
28
views
views
81
Jirō Kawakita
activist
27
views
views
82
Frédéric Mistral
Provençal writer, poet, lexicographer and founder of Le Félibrige (1830–1914)
27
views
views
83
Hidemi Kon
Japanese writer
27
views
views
84
Heinrich von Siebold
Austrian collector, antiquary, japanologist (1852–1908)
27
views
views
85
Charles-Valentin Alkan
French composer and pianist (1813–1888)
25
views
views
86
Aisin-Gioro Ulhicun
linguist
25
views
views
87
Iha Fuyū
Japanese historian, linguist (1876-1947)
24
views
views
88
Michio Takeyama
Japanese writer (1903–1984)
24
views
views
89
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900–2000)
24
views
views
90
Suehiro Tanemura
Japanese writer
24
views
views
91
John Searle
American philosopher (1932–2025)
23
views
views
92
Takako Takahashi
Japanese writer (1932–2013)
23
views
views
93
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
22
views
views
94
Daisuke Takada
Japanese novelist
21
views
views
95
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)
20
views
views
96
Zoltán Kodály
Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue (1882–1967)
20
views
views
97
Ryūichi Tamura
Japanese writer (1923–1998)
20
views
views
98
Katsuragawa Hoshū
Japanese physician
19
views
views
99
Tomotada Iwakura
Japanese linguist (1933-2016)
19
views
views
100
John Amos Comenius
Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer (1592-1670)
19
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