Trending Linguists in Japan — the 7 days to 25 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed linguists on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 25 October 2026 (Japanese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Haruki Murakami. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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Ranked
179,235
Total Views (the 7 days to 25 October 2026)
1
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
51,881
views
views
2
Shūmei Ōkawa
Japanese nationalist intellectual (1886–1957)
22,249
views
views
3
Kūkai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774–835)
11,647
views
views
4
Joseph Stalin
politician and leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1924 to 1953
6,516
views
views
5
Naoyuki Akaso
Japanese linguist and educator
6,399
views
views
6
Nakahama Manjirō
English interpreter
6,255
views
views
7
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915–2016)
4,336
views
views
8
Mori Ōgai
Japanese novelist and army physician (1862-1922)
4,289
views
views
9
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
3,745
views
views
10
Nitobe Inazō
Japanese educator, agricultural economist and diplomat (1862–1933)
2,683
views
views
11
Sugita Genpaku
Japanese scholar
2,565
views
views
12
Kunio Yanagita
Japanese folklorist (1875–1962)
2,469
views
views
13
Masako Hachisuka
Japanese anglicist
2,337
views
views
14
Motoori Norinaga
Japanese scholar and philosopher (1730–1801)
2,194
views
views
15
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai royal
1,802
views
views
16
Fujiwara no Teika
poet and court noble (1162–1241)
1,757
views
views
17
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
1,694
views
views
18
Tatsuhiko Shibusawa
Japanese novelist, translator, literary critic, art critic (1928–1987)
1,689
views
views
19
Tokiko Iwatani
Japanese lyricist, linguist and translator (1916–2013)
1,592
views
views
20
Fūtarō Yamada
Japanese novelist (1922–2001)
1,389
views
views
21
Shinobu Orikuchi
Japanese writer and academic (1887–1953)
1,382
views
views
22
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
1,238
views
views
23
Donald Keene
Japanese/American academic (1922–2019)
1,226
views
views
24
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632–1677)
1,160
views
views
25
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
1,113
views
views
26
Confucius Institute
Chinese international educational partnership program
1,111
views
views
27
Hanawa Hokiichi
Japanese philosopher (1746-1821)
1,108
views
views
28
Takako Takahashi
Japanese writer (1932–2013)
1,080
views
views
29
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
1,074
views
views
30
Ogyū Sorai
Japanese philosopher (1666–1728)
931
views
views
31
Nishi Amane
Japanese philosopher and politician (1829–1897)
930
views
views
32
Natsuki Ikezawa
Japanese writer
924
views
views
33
Tatsuo Hori
writer, poet, and translator in Japan (1904–1953)
912
views
views
34
Tsuneari Fukuda
Japanese writer (1912–1994)
880
views
views
35
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
816
views
views
36
Kyōsuke Kindaichi
Japanese linguist (1882–1971)
717
views
views
37
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist (1915–1980)
661
views
views
38
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
628
views
views
39
Anne Crescini
American linguist
595
views
views
40
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
579
views
views
41
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
576
views
views
42
Hidemi Kon
Japanese writer
559
views
views
43
Edwin O. Reischauer
American diplomat (1910-1990)
516
views
views
44
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
505
views
views
45
Sankyū Tatsuo
Japanese owarai tarento and tarento
490
views
views
46
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
489
views
views
47
Shōichi Watanabe
English scholar and critic
483
views
views
48
Ikuhiko Hata
Japanese historian
477
views
views
49
Hideho Kindaichi
Japanese linguist
473
views
views
50
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
465
views
views
51
Tadao Umesao
anthropologist
462
views
views
52
Ueda Akinari
Japanese writer (1734–1809)
459
views
views
53
Haruhiko Kindaichi
Japanese lexicographer (1913–2004)
445
views
views
54
James Curtis Hepburn
American physician, educator, and phonologist of Japanese (1815–1911)
443
views
views
55
Kamo no Mabuchi
Japanese philosopher
439
views
views
56
Toshihiko Izutsu
Japanese author of many books on Islam and other religions (1914–1993)
438
views
views
57
Ryūsui Seiryōin
Japanese writer
435
views
views
58
Haruka Orth
American actress
409
views
views
59
Anjirō
Japanese translator
405
views
views
60
Hajime Nakamura
Japanese philosopher (1912-1999)
402
views
views
61
Kazuo Hirotsu
Japanese novelist and literary critic (1891-1968)
396
views
views
62
Taijun Takeda
Japanese novelist and Buddhist priest (1912–1976)
392
views
views
63
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)
381
views
views
64
José Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)
380
views
views
65
Shizuka Shirakawa
Japanese academician (1910-2006)
375
views
views
66
Zoltán Kodály
Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue (1882–1967)
375
views
views
67
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792–1822)
360
views
views
68
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891–1942)
351
views
views
69
Eiichi Chino
Japanese linguist and translator (1932–2002)
335
views
views
70
Inuhiko Yomota
Japanese writer
334
views
views
71
Heinrich von Siebold
Austrian collector, antiquary, japanologist (1852–1908)
329
views
views
72
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
321
views
views
73
Naitō Torajirō
Japanese historian and sinologist (1866–1934)
311
views
views
74
Yamada Bimyō
Japanese writer (1868–1910)
310
views
views
75
Morita Sōhei
Japanese writer and translator (1881-1949)
301
views
views
76
Shinmura Izuru
Japanese linguist (1876–1967)
298
views
views
77
Kazuko Shiraishi
Japanese poet (1931–2024)
295
views
views
78
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
293
views
views
79
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
273
views
views
80
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)
271
views
views
81
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)
270
views
views
82
Ikuma Arishima
Japanese artist (1882-1974)
270
views
views
83
Keichū
Buddhist priest and scholar
268
views
views
84
Kim Tu-bong
Korean linguist and politician (1886–1958?)
267
views
views
85
Ryūichi Tamura
Japanese writer (1923–1998)
260
views
views
86
Ryūnosuke Kuroda
Japanese linguist
257
views
views
87
Junzaburō Nishiwaki
Japanese writer (1894–1982)
247
views
views
88
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895–1975)
241
views
views
89
Satō Nobuhiro
Japanese scientist (1769-1850)
232
views
views
90
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)
222
views
views
91
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739–1791)
220
views
views
92
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
218
views
views
93
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904–1980)
218
views
views
94
Suehiro Tanemura
Japanese writer
213
views
views
95
Munemasa Tokugawa
Japanese linguist
210
views
views
96
Yoko Matsuoka McClain
Japanese language scholar
209
views
views
97
Date Munehiro
Japanese samurai, writer and historian (1802-1877)
205
views
views
98
Johan Huizinga
Dutch cultural historian (1872–1945)
202
views
views
99
Thomas Lockley
Linguist, Associate Professor of Law, Nihon University
201
views
views
100
Mashiho Chiri
Ainu lexicographer (1909-1961)
201
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