Trending Linguists in Japan this year
The 100 most-viewed linguists this year on Wikipedia (Japan). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Nakahama Manjirō.
100
Ranked
31,006
Total Views (this year)
1
Nakahama Manjirō
English interpreter
2,850
views
views
2
Kūkai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774–835)
1,938
views
views
3
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
1,734
views
views
4
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
1,617
views
views
5
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
1,608
views
views
6
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915–2016)
1,416
views
views
7
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
1,321
views
views
8
Mori Ōgai
Japanese novelist and army physician (1862-1922)
1,318
views
views
9
Shimizu Usaburō
(1829-1910)
773
views
views
10
Nitobe Inazō
Japanese educator, agricultural economist and diplomat (1862–1933)
714
views
views
11
Kunio Yanagita
Japanese folklorist (1875–1962)
666
views
views
12
Motoori Norinaga
Japanese scholar and philosopher (1730–1801)
522
views
views
13
Shūmei Ōkawa
Japanese nationalist intellectual (1886–1957)
505
views
views
14
Fujiwara no Teika
poet and court noble (1162–1241)
485
views
views
15
Hanawa Hokiichi
Japanese philosopher (1746-1821)
469
views
views
16
Ogyū Sorai
Japanese philosopher (1666–1728)
429
views
views
17
Shinobu Orikuchi
Japanese writer and academic (1887–1953)
392
views
views
18
Sugita Genpaku
Japanese scholar
376
views
views
19
Fūtarō Yamada
Japanese novelist (1922–2001)
375
views
views
20
Tatsuhiko Shibusawa
Japanese novelist, translator, literary critic, art critic (1928–1987)
343
views
views
21
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
336
views
views
22
Tokiko Iwatani
Japanese lyricist, linguist and translator (1916–2013)
324
views
views
23
Nishi Amane
Japanese philosopher and politician (1829–1897)
309
views
views
24
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
307
views
views
25
Tsuneari Fukuda
Japanese writer (1912–1994)
299
views
views
26
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
292
views
views
27
Masako Hachisuka
Japanese anglicist
285
views
views
28
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
285
views
views
29
Kyōsuke Kindaichi
Japanese linguist (1882–1971)
284
views
views
30
Natsuki Ikezawa
Japanese writer
282
views
views
31
Donald Keene
Japanese/American academic (1922–2019)
282
views
views
32
Edwin O. Reischauer
American diplomat (1910-1990)
274
views
views
33
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
274
views
views
34
Haruhiko Kindaichi
Japanese lexicographer (1913–2004)
233
views
views
35
James Curtis Hepburn
American physician, educator, and phonologist of Japanese (1815–1911)
230
views
views
36
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
192
views
views
37
Hideho Kindaichi
Japanese linguist
190
views
views
38
Tatsuo Hori
writer, poet, and translator in Japan (1904–1953)
189
views
views
39
Yone Noguchi
Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism (1875-1947)
187
views
views
40
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
171
views
views
41
Naoyuki Akaso
Japanese linguist and educator
166
views
views
42
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
165
views
views
43
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
164
views
views
44
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
160
views
views
45
Kazuko Shiraishi
Japanese poet (1931–2024)
160
views
views
46
Sankyū Tatsuo
Japanese owarai tarento and tarento
158
views
views
47
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
157
views
views
48
Shōichi Watanabe
English scholar and critic
155
views
views
49
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
151
views
views
50
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai Royal
144
views
views
51
Shin'ichirō Tawata
Japanese linguist
141
views
views
52
Toshihiko Izutsu
Japanese author of many books on Islam and other religions (1914–1993)
139
views
views
53
Tadao Umesao
anthropologist
136
views
views
54
Kamo no Mabuchi
Japanese philosopher
132
views
views
55
Hajime Nakamura
Japanese philosopher (1912-1999)
131
views
views
56
Taijun Takeda
Japanese novelist and Buddhist priest (1912–1976)
129
views
views
57
Ikuhiko Hata
Japanese historian
125
views
views
58
Inuhiko Yomota
Japanese writer
117
views
views
59
Kanda Naibu
Japanese educator
114
views
views
60
Ueda Akinari
Japanese writer (1734–1809)
113
views
views
61
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)
112
views
views
62
Ryūsui Seiryōin
Japanese writer
109
views
views
63
Naitō Torajirō
Japanese historian and sinologist (1866–1934)
107
views
views
64
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
106
views
views
65
Anjirō
Japanese translator
106
views
views
66
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
105
views
views
67
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)
104
views
views
68
Morita Sōhei
Japanese writer and translator (1881-1949)
99
views
views
69
José Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)
94
views
views
70
Yamada Bimyō
Japanese writer (1868–1910)
88
views
views
71
Thomas Lockley
Linguist, Associate Professor of Law, Nihon University
88
views
views
72
Ryūichi Tamura
Japanese writer (1923–1998)
88
views
views
73
Eiichi Chino
Japanese linguist and translator (1932-2002)
83
views
views
74
Keichū
Buddhist priest and scholar
83
views
views
75
Masumi Kindaichi
Japanese linguist
77
views
views
76
Ikuma Arishima
Japanese artist (1882-1974)
75
views
views
77
Minamoto no Shitagō
Japanese poet
74
views
views
78
Katyayana
figure mentioned in Early Buddhist texts; leading disciple of Gautama Buddha
74
views
views
79
Ai Kawazoe
Japanese linguist
71
views
views
80
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)
70
views
views
81
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)
70
views
views
82
Kazuo Hirotsu
Japanese novelist and literary critic (1891-1968)
70
views
views
83
Pierre Klossowski
French writer, translator and painter (1905-2001)
69
views
views
84
Ueda Kazutoshi
Japanese linguist
67
views
views
85
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
66
views
views
86
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
64
views
views
87
José Martí
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
63
views
views
88
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900–2000)
63
views
views
89
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739–1791)
63
views
views
90
Junesay Iddittie
Japanese linguist
63
views
views
91
Iha Fuyū
Japanese historian, linguist (1876-1947)
62
views
views
92
Date Munehiro
Japanese samurai, writer and historian (1802-1877)
61
views
views
93
Shinmura Izuru
Japanese linguist (1876–1967)
61
views
views
94
Heinrich von Siebold
Austrian collector, antiquary, japanologist (1852–1908)
61
views
views
95
Yoko Matsuoka McClain
Japanese language scholar
61
views
views
96
Akiyasu Tōdō
Japanese linguist (1915–1985)
61
views
views
97
Junzaburō Nishiwaki
Japanese writer (1894–1982)
60
views
views
98
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904-1980)
59
views
views
99
Charles-Valentin Alkan
French composer and pianist (1813–1888)
58
views
views
100
John Searle
American philosopher (1932–2025)
58
views
views