Trending Linguists in Japan — the 7 days to 26 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed linguists on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 26 October 2026 (Japanese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Haruki Murakami. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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Ranked
196,032
Total Views (the 7 days to 26 October 2026)
1
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
58,890
views
views
2
Shūmei Ōkawa
Japanese nationalist intellectual (1886–1957)
23,550
views
views
3
Kūkai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774–835)
11,537
views
views
4
Naoyuki Akaso
Japanese linguist and educator
6,822
views
views
5
Nakahama Manjirō
English interpreter
6,802
views
views
6
Joseph Stalin
politician and leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1924 to 1953
6,776
views
views
7
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915–2016)
4,685
views
views
8
Mori Ōgai
Japanese novelist and army physician (1862-1922)
4,595
views
views
9
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
4,001
views
views
10
Nitobe Inazō
Japanese educator, agricultural economist and diplomat (1862–1933)
2,914
views
views
11
Masako Hachisuka
Japanese anglicist
2,777
views
views
12
Sugita Genpaku
Japanese scholar
2,727
views
views
13
Kunio Yanagita
Japanese folklorist (1875–1962)
2,600
views
views
14
Motoori Norinaga
Japanese scholar and philosopher (1730–1801)
2,317
views
views
15
Fujiwara no Teika
poet and court noble (1162–1241)
1,875
views
views
16
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai royal
1,834
views
views
17
Tatsuhiko Shibusawa
Japanese novelist, translator, literary critic, art critic (1928–1987)
1,791
views
views
18
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
1,785
views
views
19
Tokiko Iwatani
Japanese lyricist, linguist and translator (1916–2013)
1,721
views
views
20
Confucius Institute
Chinese international educational partnership program
1,629
views
views
21
Fūtarō Yamada
Japanese novelist (1922–2001)
1,540
views
views
22
Shinobu Orikuchi
Japanese writer and academic (1887–1953)
1,485
views
views
23
Donald Keene
Japanese/American academic (1922–2019)
1,332
views
views
24
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
1,304
views
views
25
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632–1677)
1,261
views
views
26
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
1,178
views
views
27
Takako Takahashi
Japanese writer (1932–2013)
1,155
views
views
28
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
1,153
views
views
29
Hanawa Hokiichi
Japanese philosopher (1746-1821)
1,125
views
views
30
Natsuki Ikezawa
Japanese writer
1,124
views
views
31
Tatsuo Hori
writer, poet, and translator in Japan (1904–1953)
1,037
views
views
32
Nishi Amane
Japanese philosopher and politician (1829–1897)
1,017
views
views
33
Ogyū Sorai
Japanese philosopher (1666–1728)
995
views
views
34
Tsuneari Fukuda
Japanese writer (1912–1994)
928
views
views
35
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
883
views
views
36
Shūgo Hotta
Japanese teacher
813
views
views
37
Kyōsuke Kindaichi
Japanese linguist (1882–1971)
750
views
views
38
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist (1915–1980)
695
views
views
39
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
678
views
views
40
Ryūnosuke Kuroda
Japanese linguist
640
views
views
41
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
621
views
views
42
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
594
views
views
43
Hidemi Kon
Japanese writer
593
views
views
44
Anne Crescini
American linguist
582
views
views
45
Edwin O. Reischauer
American diplomat (1910-1990)
563
views
views
46
Shōichi Watanabe
English scholar and critic
555
views
views
47
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
532
views
views
48
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
530
views
views
49
Sankyū Tatsuo
Japanese owarai tarento and tarento
527
views
views
50
Ueda Akinari
Japanese writer (1734–1809)
518
views
views
51
Tadao Umesao
anthropologist
510
views
views
52
Ikuhiko Hata
Japanese historian
504
views
views
53
Hideho Kindaichi
Japanese linguist
500
views
views
54
Shigehiko Toyama
Japanese professor of English literature (1923-2020)
500
views
views
55
James Curtis Hepburn
American physician, educator, and phonologist of Japanese (1815–1911)
495
views
views
56
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
489
views
views
57
Toshihiko Izutsu
Japanese author of many books on Islam and other religions (1914–1993)
481
views
views
58
Kamo no Mabuchi
Japanese philosopher
468
views
views
59
Ryūsui Seiryōin
Japanese writer
459
views
views
60
Haruhiko Kindaichi
Japanese lexicographer (1913–2004)
447
views
views
61
Taijun Takeda
Japanese novelist and Buddhist priest (1912–1976)
433
views
views
62
Hajime Nakamura
Japanese philosopher (1912-1999)
426
views
views
63
Anjirō
Japanese translator
423
views
views
64
Kumiko Torikai
English interpreter, English translator, English teacher
417
views
views
65
Kazuo Hirotsu
Japanese novelist and literary critic (1891-1968)
415
views
views
66
Haruka Orth
American actress
411
views
views
67
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)
404
views
views
68
José Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)
393
views
views
69
Zoltán Kodály
Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue (1882–1967)
385
views
views
70
Shizuka Shirakawa
Japanese academician (1910-2006)
384
views
views
71
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
362
views
views
72
Yamada Bimyō
Japanese writer (1868–1910)
353
views
views
73
Inuhiko Yomota
Japanese writer
350
views
views
74
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792–1822)
349
views
views
75
Eiichi Chino
Japanese linguist and translator (1932–2002)
345
views
views
76
Heinrich von Siebold
Austrian collector, antiquary, japanologist (1852–1908)
343
views
views
77
Naitō Torajirō
Japanese historian and sinologist (1866–1934)
336
views
views
78
Kazuko Shiraishi
Japanese poet (1931–2024)
331
views
views
79
Morita Sōhei
Japanese writer and translator (1881-1949)
320
views
views
80
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891–1942)
319
views
views
81
Shinmura Izuru
Japanese linguist (1876–1967)
319
views
views
82
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
307
views
views
83
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)
307
views
views
84
Ikuma Arishima
Japanese artist (1882-1974)
299
views
views
85
Kumiko Kanazashi
Japanese linguist (1964-)
291
views
views
86
Kim Tu-bong
Korean linguist and politician (1886–1958?)
289
views
views
87
Keichū
Buddhist priest and scholar
288
views
views
88
Ryūichi Tamura
Japanese writer (1923–1998)
283
views
views
89
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
280
views
views
90
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895–1975)
267
views
views
91
Junzaburō Nishiwaki
Japanese writer (1894–1982)
258
views
views
92
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)
257
views
views
93
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904–1980)
248
views
views
94
Satō Nobuhiro
Japanese scientist (1769-1850)
248
views
views
95
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739–1791)
244
views
views
96
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)
241
views
views
97
Suehiro Tanemura
Japanese writer
234
views
views
98
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
231
views
views
99
Thomas Lockley
Linguist, Associate Professor of Law, Nihon University
228
views
views
100
Satoshi Kinsui
Japanese linguist
225
views
views