Trending Philosophers in Japan this month
The 100 most-viewed philosophers this month on Wikipedia (Japan). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Osamu Tekina.
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59,013
Total Views (this month)
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1
Osamu Tekina
Japanese philosopher and writer
7,745
views
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2
Masahiro Yasuoka
Japanese scholar and educator
6,567
views
views
3
Hiroki Azuma
Japanese critic and philosopher (1971β )
1,464
views
views
4
John Lennon
British musician (1940β1980)
1,368
views
views
5
Diana, Princess of Wales
member of the British royal family and Princess of Wales (1961β1997)
1,254
views
views
6
Donald Sutherland
Canadian actor (1935β2024)
1,212
views
views
7
Miyamoto Musashi
Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer, artist, and rΕnin (1584β1645)
1,186
views
views
8
KΕ«kai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774β835)
1,169
views
views
9
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
981
views
views
10
Yangnyeong
Korean prince (1394-1462)
949
views
views
11
Yoshida ShΕin
Japanese politician (1830-1859)
941
views
views
12
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
906
views
views
13
The Buddha
Indian philosopher and the founder of Buddhism (623 or 563 BCE β 543 or 483 BCE)
897
views
views
14
Yoko Ono
Japanese artist and activist based in the United States (born 1933)
843
views
views
15
Mao Zedong
1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893β1976)
812
views
views
16
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818β1883)
748
views
views
17
Confucius
5th-century BCE Chinese philosopher and politician
690
views
views
18
Fukuzawa Yukichi
Modern Enlightenment thinker, educator, philosopher, scholar, author, writer, journalist, translator, entrepreneur, and founder of Keio Univ
677
views
views
19
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844-1900)
650
views
views
20
Kohei Saito
Japanese philosopher, Marxist (1987-)
631
views
views
21
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
612
views
views
22
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian independence activist (1869β1948)
598
views
views
23
Kiyoshi Oka
Japanese mathematician who worked in the theory of several complex variables (1901-1978)
586
views
views
24
RyΕ«hΕ Εkawa
Japanese religious leader who founded the world religion "Happy Science" (1956-2023)
586
views
views
25
Socrates
5th-century BCE Greek philosopher
586
views
views
26
Vladimir Lenin
founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870β1924)
585
views
views
27
Murasaki Shikibu
Japanese novelist and poet (c.973βc.1014)
562
views
views
28
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
548
views
views
29
George Eliot
English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist (1819β1880)
527
views
views
30
Zeami Motokiyo
Japanese aesthetician and playwright
511
views
views
31
Alan Watts
British American author and lecturer (1915β1973)
505
views
views
32
Sun Yat-sen
Chinese politician, physician, and revolutionary (1866β1925)
505
views
views
33
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821β1881)
504
views
views
34
Yoshihiro Nitta
Japanese philosopher
488
views
views
35
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564β1642)
488
views
views
36
Plato
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
478
views
views
37
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
433
views
views
38
Matsudaira Sadanobu
Japanese daimyΕ of the mid-Edo period (1759-1829)
423
views
views
39
Martin Luther King Jr.
American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929β1968)
422
views
views
40
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian philosopher and logician (1889β1951)
408
views
views
41
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642β1727)
394
views
views
42
KitarΕ Nishida
Japanese philosopher (1870β1945)
393
views
views
43
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
389
views
views
44
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
381
views
views
45
Nichiren
Founder of Nichiren Buddhism in Japan
376
views
views
46
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
358
views
views
47
Motoori Norinaga
Japanese scholar and philosopher (1730β1801)
358
views
views
48
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828β1910)
357
views
views
49
Tatsuru Uchida
Japanese scholar of French literature, martial artist, translator, thinker, and essayist (1950β )
356
views
views
50
Alan Turing
English computer scientist (1912β1954)
354
views
views
51
SaichΕ
Japanese Buddhist monk, founder of the Japanese Tendai school
349
views
views
52
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809β1882)
338
views
views
53
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905β1980)
338
views
views
54
Himura Kenshin
fictional character and protagonist of the Rurouni Kenshin manga
327
views
views
55
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924β2024)
326
views
views
56
Ninomiya Sontoku
Japanese philosopher
319
views
views
57
Count of St. Germain
18th-century European adventurer and intellectual
308
views
views
58
Hannah Arendt
German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906β1975)
306
views
views
59
Takeshi KaikΕ
Japanese writer and activist (1930β1989)
305
views
views
60
Hanawa Hokiichi
Japanese philosopher (1746-1821)
303
views
views
61
Takaaki Yoshimoto
Japanese poet and Philosopher (1924β2012)
301
views
views
62
Martin Luther
German priest and theologian (1483β1546)
300
views
views
63
Susumu Nishibe
Japanese critic, conservative and economist
292
views
views
64
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
284
views
views
65
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820β1895)
282
views
views
66
Prince Hyoryeong
son of King Taejong of Joseon Korean state
280
views
views
67
Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher (1788-1860)
279
views
views
68
Kojin Karatani
Japanese philosopher
278
views
views
69
Leon Trotsky
Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879β1940)
276
views
views
70
Hideo Kobayashi
Japanese writer (1902β1983)
274
views
views
71
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
270
views
views
72
KanzΕ Uchimura
Japanese writer (1861β1930)
266
views
views
73
Michel Foucault
French philosopher (1926β1984)
264
views
views
74
Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry
French writer and aviator (1900β1944)
260
views
views
75
Yanagi SΕetsu
Japanese philosopher (1889-1961)
260
views
views
76
Marquis de Sade
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
257
views
views
77
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
254
views
views
78
LΓΌ Buwei
Chinese merchant and politician of the Qin state (291β235 BC)
250
views
views
79
Martin Heidegger
German philosopher (1889β1976)
250
views
views
80
Lewis Carroll
British author and scholar (1832β1898)
247
views
views
81
Ikki Kita
Japanese philosopher and right-wing activist
247
views
views
82
Sima Qian
2nd-century BCE Chinese historian and writer
245
views
views
83
Saneatsu MushanokΕji
Japanese artist (1885-1976)
245
views
views
84
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913β1960)
245
views
views
85
Arai Hakuseki
Japanese scholar and official (1657β1725)
243
views
views
86
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
243
views
views
87
Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922β2007)
235
views
views
88
Kanji Nishio
Japanese germanist, philosopher and historian
234
views
views
89
Voltaire
French writer, historian and philosopher (1694β1778)
233
views
views
90
Max Weber
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864β1920)
232
views
views
91
Pope Francis
266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936β2025)
230
views
views
92
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743β1826)
227
views
views
93
Thomas More
English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478β1535)
226
views
views
94
Adam Smith
Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723β1790)
225
views
views
95
Marcus Aurelius
16th Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 and Stoic philosopher
220
views
views
96
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher and theologian (1770β1831)
220
views
views
97
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
218
views
views
98
Kibi no Makibi
Japanese scholar (695-775)
215
views
views
99
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265β1321)
214
views
views
100
Lee Kuan Yew
1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore (1923β2015)
212
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