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  1. Yōichi TakahashiAcademicsJapan

    67.3Fame score out of 100

  2. Yoichi OchiaiAcademicsJapan

    Busiest day 29 Oct, no cause found yet

    66.6Fame score out of 100

    About as usualBusiest day 29 Oct, no cause found yet

  3. Heizō TakenakaAcademicsJapan

    64.2Fame score out of 100

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4thChizuko UenoJapanese sociologist b. 1948JapanAcademics63.0of 100
5thKohei SaitoJapanese philosopher, Marxist b. 1987JapanAcademics59.7of 100Busiest day 1 Nov, no cause found yet
6thNobuko NakanoJapanese commentator and critic b. 1975JapanAcademics56.8of 100Busiest day 30 Oct, no cause found yet
7thTakuji AidaJapanese economist b. 1975JapanAcademics55.6of 100Busiest day 3 Nov, no cause found yet
8thShinichi MochizukiJapanese mathematician b. 1969JapanAcademics55.4of 100Busiest day 29 Oct, no cause found yet
9thKazuo UedaJapanese economist b. 1951JapanAcademics55.1of 100Busiest day 30 Oct, no cause found yet
10thTasuku HonjoJapanese professor of immunology and genomic medicine b. 1942JapanAcademics54.0of 100
11thHiroki AzumaJapanese philosopher, critic b. 1971JapanAcademics53.5of 100Counted to 15 September 2026, not since.
12thMakiko NakamuroJapanese economist b. 1975JapanAcademics52.8of 100Busiest day 29 Oct, no cause found yet
13thShinichi FujimuraJapanese amateur archaeologist b. 1950JapanAcademics51.9of 100
14thKenichi OhmaeJapanese business theorist b. 1943JapanAcademics51.9of 100
15thNaoyuki AkasoJapanese linguist and educator b. 1959JapanAcademics51.8of 100
16thTatsuru UchidaJapanese scholar of French literature, martial artist b. 1950JapanAcademics51.5of 100Busiest day 1 Nov, no cause found yet
17thSakuji YoshimuraJapanese Egyptologist b. 1943JapanAcademics50.1of 100
18thJitsurō TerashimaJapanese economist and critic b. 1947JapanAcademics47.1of 100
19thKōsuke MotaniJapanese economist（1964-）JapanAcademics46.8of 100
20thSayuri ShiraiJapanese economist b. 1963JapanAcademics45.5of 100
21stHiroshi KamiwakiJapanese jurist b. 1958JapanAcademics45.4of 100

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Yōichi Takahashi leads the 128 living academics from Japan. Ranked by public attention and updated every day. Climbing fastest this week: Tatsuru Uchida.

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