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Top 100 Academics in Japan

The most publicly visible academics in Japan.

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The most famous academics in Japan right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	AY Ayumi Yasutomi	Japan	Academics	67.0	6.7
#2	—	Chizuko Ueno	Japan	Academics	65.5	0.0
#3	—	Daichi Suzuki	Japan	Academics	63.1	5.9
#4	—	Shin'ichirō Tomonaga	Japan	Academics	62.0	4.9
#5	—	Dōgen	Japan	Academics	58.7	11.9
#6	—	Kohei Saito	Japan	Academics	58.0	16.9
#7	—	Ümit Özdağ	Japan	Academics	57.8	10.0
#8	—	Kazuo Ueda	Japan	Academics	56.6	20.7
#9	—	Haruhiko Kuroda	Japan	Academics	56.1	21.0
#10	—	Toshihide Maskawa	Japan	Academics	56.0	0.2
#11	—	Kitasato Shibasaburō	Japan	Academics	55.8	0.0
#12	—	Hakuin Ekaku	Japan	Academics	55.4	16.2
#13	—	Kunihiko Kodaira	Japan	Academics	55.4	17.3
#14	—	TK Toshihiko Koga	Japan	Academics	55.2	3.8
#15	—	D. T. Suzuki	Japan	Academics	55.1	0.0
#16	—	Shigefumi Mori	Japan	Academics	54.9	9.3
#17	—	Gorō Shimura	Japan	Academics	54.8	5.1
#18	—	Arai Hakuseki	Japan	Academics	54.8	2.3
#19	—	Masahiro Yasuoka	Japan	Academics	54.8	0.0
#20	—	KO Kenichi Ohmae	Japan	Academics	54.5	18.2
#21	—	NN Nobuko Nakano	Japan	Academics	54.5	25.0
#22	—	Susumu Tonegawa	Japan	Academics	54.3	0.5
#23	—	Saichō	Japan	Academics	54.2	0.0
#24	—	Tasuku Honjo	Japan	Academics	54.2	0.0
#25	—	Masanobu Fukuoka	Japan	Academics	54.1	0.0
#26	—	Masaaki Shirakawa	Japan	Academics	54.0	10.0
#27	—	Ryoichi Ikegami	Japan	Academics	53.8	15.3
#28	—	Kiyoshi Itō	Japan	Academics	53.4	0.7
#29	—	Hideo Itokawa	Japan	Academics	53.4	8.5
#30	—	Moriteru Ueshiba	Japan	Academics	53.4	5.5
#31	—	Heisuke Hironaka	Japan	Academics	53.3	0.0
#32	—	SF Shinichi Fujimura	Japan	Academics	53.3	3.3
#33	—	Kojin Karatani	Japan	Academics	53.2	2.8
#34	—	Masaki Kashiwara	Japan	Academics	53.0	8.6
#35	—	Matsudaira Sadanobu	Japan	Academics	53.0	0.0
#36	—	Takakazu Seki	Japan	Academics	52.8	0.0
#37	—	Motoo Kimura	Japan	Academics	52.7	1.7
#38	—	RK Ryuta Kawashima	Japan	Academics	52.7	5.2
#39	—	Kuki Shūzō	Japan	Academics	52.5	8.0
#40	—	SM Shinichi Mochizuki	Japan	Academics	52.5	0.0
#41	—	Yamamoto Tsunetomo	Japan	Academics	52.4	0.3
#42	—	Hirofumi Uzawa	Japan	Academics	52.3	20.7
#43	—	Thomas Noguchi	Japan	Academics	51.8	0.9
#44	—	Kaibara Ekken	Japan	Academics	51.7	1.8
#45	—	Hayashi Razan	Japan	Academics	51.7	0.0
#46	—	SS Sayuri Shirai	Japan	Academics	51.6	25.0
#47	—	MN Makiko Nakamuro	Japan	Academics	51.6	11.2
#48	—	Yutaka Taniyama	Japan	Academics	51.6	0.0
#49	—	KU Kazuhide Uekusa	Japan	Academics	51.5	5.0
#50	—	Ryūzō Torii	Japan	Academics	51.4	15.0
#51	—	Tomisaku Kawasaki	Japan	Academics	51.4	5.2
#52	—	Sawao Katō	Japan	Academics	51.3	0.0
#53	—	Fujiwara Seika	Japan	Academics	51.3	8.1
#54	—	Tsunesaburō Makiguchi	Japan	Academics	51.2	1.3
#55	—	KS Kazuko Sugiyama	Japan	Academics	51.2	0.0
#56	—	MS Mikio Sato	Japan	Academics	51.0	0.0
#57	—	Kibi no Makibi	Japan	Academics	51.0	0.0
#58	—	Tatsukichi Minobe	Japan	Academics	50.9	1.8
#59	—	Yukio Endō	Japan	Academics	50.9	0.4
#60	—	George Ohsawa	Japan	Academics	50.8	0.0
#61	—	TM Takurō Morinaga	Japan	Academics	50.5	0.4
#62	—	Keiji Nishitani	Japan	Academics	50.4	1.6
#63	—	Akira Endō	Japan	Academics	50.2	0.0
#64	—	MA Masahiko Aoki	Japan	Academics	50.2	6.6
#65	—	SS Setsuko Shibuya	Japan	Academics	50.2	8.4
#66	—	AS Akinaka Senzaki	Japan	Academics	50.1	15.0
#67	—	Tomoko Ohta	Japan	Academics	50.1	6.3
#68	—	Tetsuro Watsuji	Japan	Academics	50.1	0.0
#69	—	Masao Maruyama	Japan	Academics	49.9	0.0
#70	—	Masatoşi Gündüz İkeda	Japan	Academics	49.8	22.0
#71	—	AA Akira Asada	Japan	Academics	49.8	2.4
#72	—	Takeo Kanade	Japan	Academics	49.8	17.4
#73	—	Hajime Tanabe	Japan	Academics	49.7	0.1
#74	—	Hajime Kawakami	Japan	Academics	49.7	0.3
#75	—	Toshihiko Fukui	Japan	Academics	49.7	18.6
#76	—	KT Kawashima Tatsuhiko	Japan	Academics	49.6	4.9
#77	—	Hiroo Kanamori	Japan	Academics	49.6	2.2
#78	—	Hajime Nakamura	Japan	Academics	49.5	0.0
#79	—	Hirotugu Akaike	Japan	Academics	49.4	0.0
#80	—	TH Terumasa Hino	Japan	Academics	49.4	1.8
#81	—	Toshio Hirano	Japan	Academics	49.3	23.7
#82	—	Hitoshi Yamakawa	Japan	Academics	49.3	1.6
#83	—	Ikeda Mitsumasa	Japan	Academics	49.3	0.0
#84	—	MF Masahiko Fujiwara	Japan	Academics	49.3	5.9
#85	—	Masao Yamaguchi	Japan	Academics	49.2	5.7
#86	—	Shinobu Ishihara	Japan	Academics	49.1	0.0
#87	—	Abe Isoo	Japan	Academics	49.1	0.0
#88	—	Chie Nakane	Japan	Academics	49.1	7.1
#89	—	Nobuko Imai	Japan	Academics	49.1	2.3
#90	—	Kinji Imanishi	Japan	Academics	49.0	3.8
#91	—	NI Nobuo Ikeda	Japan	Academics	48.9	3.3
#92	—	Hiroshi Kamiwaki	Japan	Academics	48.9	25.0
#93	—	HN Hitoshi Nagai	Japan	Academics	48.9	9.1
#94	—	KM Kōsuke Motani	Japan	Academics	48.9	15.0
#95	—	Yamazaki Ansai	Japan	Academics	48.9	0.0
#96	—	Teiji Takagi	Japan	Academics	48.9	0.1
#97	—	Shunsuke Tsurumi	Japan	Academics	48.8	0.0
#98	—	Yoshimi Ōsawa	Japan	Academics	48.8	19.1
#99	—	AT Asada, Tōichirō	Japan	Academics	48.8	25.0
#100	—	Kozo Uno	Japan	Academics	48.6	5.6

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