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Top 100 Writers in Japan

The most publicly visible writers in Japan.

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The most famous writers 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	—	Matsuo Bashō	Japan	Writers	91.2	15.0
#2	—	Fumio Kishida	Japan	Writers	81.2	6.2
#3	—	Masahiro Sakurai	Japan	Writers	79.2	13.6
#4	—	Murasaki Shikibu	Japan	Writers	78.9	0.6
#5	—	Marie Kondō	Japan	Writers	78.9	15.0
#6	—	TY Takeshi Yōrō	Japan	Writers	76.4	10.0
#7	—	DaiGo	Japan	Writers	74.3	15.0
#8	—	Yukio Mishima	Japan	Writers	73.8	6.2
#9	—	Haruki Murakami	Japan	Writers	72.8	0.0
#10	—	Yasunari Kawabata	Japan	Writers	72.4	0.9
#11	—	TS Tamotsu Sugano	Japan	Writers	72.3	10.0
#12	—	Naoki Hyakuta	Japan	Writers	69.7	0.0
#13	—	S Saeko	Japan	Writers	69.4	0.0
#14	—	Masaaki Yuasa	Japan	Writers	68.7	1.4
#15	—	Kenzaburō Ōe	Japan	Writers	68.7	1.8
#16	—	Miyamoto Musashi	Japan	Writers	68.0	19.9
#17	—	NH Negi Haruba	Japan	Writers	67.9	1.9
#18	—	Katsuya Okada	Japan	Writers	67.7	1.3
#19	—	Ryūnosuke Akutagawa	Japan	Writers	67.6	3.7
#20	new	TY Tsubasa Yamaguchi	Japan	Writers	66.8	3.6
#21	1	Shuntarō Tanikawa	Japan	Writers	66.8	2.4
#22	1	Ken Akamatsu	Japan	Writers	66.7	0.1
#23	1	Osamu Suzuki	Japan	Writers	66.4	1.1
#24	1	UN Usagi Nakamura	Japan	Writers	66.3	25.0
#25	1	Osamu Dazai	Japan	Writers	64.8	5.6
#26	1	Hideo Kojima	Japan	Writers	63.5	10.4
#27	1	Shigeru Miyamoto	Japan	Writers	63.1	11.1
#28	1	Manamo Miyata	Japan	Writers	62.9	0.0
#29	1	Banana Yoshimoto	Japan	Writers	62.8	25.0
#30	1	KH Kazuko Hosoki	Japan	Writers	62.5	0.0
#31	1	YS Yūna Suzuki	Japan	Writers	62.1	1.2
#32	1	Natsume Sōseki	Japan	Writers	62.0	4.1
#33	1	Empress Masako	Japan	Writers	61.7	6.8
#34	1	Akira Toriyama	Japan	Writers	61.5	1.2
#35	1	Empress Michiko	Japan	Writers	61.3	10.2
#36	1	SA Shōkō Asahara	Japan	Writers	61.1	2.2
#37	1	Amélie Nothomb	Japan	Writers	61.0	0.0
#38	1	YM Yukiko Motoya	Japan	Writers	60.7	15.0
#39	1	Masahiko Shimada	Japan	Writers	60.7	6.5
#40	1	Kūkai	Japan	Writers	60.6	4.3
#41	1	Junji Itō	Japan	Writers	60.5	4.2
#42	1	Hideki Kamiya	Japan	Writers	60.2	15.7
#43	1	Takahito, Prince Mikasa	Japan	Writers	60.1	6.4
#44	1	Tadamichi Kuribayashi	Japan	Writers	60.0	5.5
#45	1	Masaoka Shiki	Japan	Writers	59.8	19.1
#46	1	KI Kazuhiko Inoue	Japan	Writers	59.4	18.3
#47	1	Kōbō Abe	Japan	Writers	59.4	0.4
#48	1	Toshikazu Kawaguchi	Japan	Writers	59.3	0.4
#49	1	Ai Yazawa	Japan	Writers	58.9	3.5
#50	1	Sayaka Murata	Japan	Writers	58.9	10.4
#51	1	Misuzu Kaneko	Japan	Writers	58.9	15.0
#52	1	Rumiko Takahashi	Japan	Writers	58.8	0.0
#53	1	TO Tsugumi Ohba	Japan	Writers	58.8	4.0
#54	1	Yasutaka Tsutsui	Japan	Writers	58.8	15.7
#55	1	Chūya Nakahara	Japan	Writers	58.7	5.7
#56	1	Atsushi Nakajima	Japan	Writers	58.6	13.5
#57	1	Jun'ichirō Tanizaki	Japan	Writers	58.5	1.5
#58	1	Kōji Suzuki	Japan	Writers	58.5	0.0
#59	1	Jitō	Japan	Writers	58.5	3.7
#60	1	Gosho Aoyama	Japan	Writers	58.3	0.0
#61	1	Kenji Miyazawa	Japan	Writers	58.1	1.1
#62	1	Hisako, Princess Takamado	Japan	Writers	58.1	15.0
#63	1	Chiune Sugihara	Japan	Writers	58.0	1.2
#64	1	Seichō Matsumoto	Japan	Writers	58.0	10.9
#65	1	Edogawa Ranpo	Japan	Writers	57.9	1.5
#66	1	Sei Shōnagon	Japan	Writers	57.9	0.0
#67	1	Kobayashi Issa	Japan	Writers	57.9	10.9
#68	1	Ango Sakaguchi	Japan	Writers	57.9	18.3
#69	1	Hiromi Kawakami	Japan	Writers	57.8	15.9
#70	1	Mas Oyama	Japan	Writers	57.7	1.2
#71	1	Hasekura Tsunenaga	Japan	Writers	57.7	7.9
#72	1	Mori Ōgai	Japan	Writers	57.6	0.6
#73	1	AN Akiyuki Nosaka	Japan	Writers	57.6	11.8
#74	1	Hisashi Owada	Japan	Writers	57.6	25.0
#75	1	NK Natsuo Kirino	Japan	Writers	57.6	6.4
#76	1	Kōtarō Isaka	Japan	Writers	57.5	10.0
#77	1	Kazuo Koike	Japan	Writers	57.4	14.9
#78	1	Fujiko F. Fujio	Japan	Writers	57.4	17.3
#79	1	Takaaki Yoshimoto	Japan	Writers	57.4	10.0
#80	1	Shūji Terayama	Japan	Writers	57.3	3.0
#81	1	Kafū Nagai	Japan	Writers	57.3	5.1
#82	1	Sugawara no Michizane	Japan	Writers	57.3	0.0
#83	1	Jiro Taniguchi	Japan	Writers	57.1	15.0
#84	1	Kazuki Takahashi	Japan	Writers	57.0	0.0
#85	1	Keigo Higashino	Japan	Writers	57.0	0.0
#86	1	Nitobe Inazō	Japan	Writers	57.0	2.1
#87	1	Kanae Minato	Japan	Writers	56.8	5.8
#88	1	Genmei	Japan	Writers	56.8	2.4
#89	1	Katsuhiro Otomo	Japan	Writers	56.8	0.0
#90	1	Morio Kita	Japan	Writers	56.8	10.0
#91	1	Gen Urobuchi	Japan	Writers	56.7	3.0
#92	1	Akiko Yosano	Japan	Writers	56.6	0.3
#93	1	Chiyo Uno	Japan	Writers	56.5	20.7
#94	1	MT Mizuki Tsujimura	Japan	Writers	56.5	10.0
#95	1	Sakyo Komatsu	Japan	Writers	56.5	14.8
#96	1	Ryū Murakami	Japan	Writers	56.4	0.0
#97	1	SF Senzaburō Fukami	Japan	Writers	56.4	12.4
#98	1	Nobuko Yoshiya	Japan	Writers	56.5	13.7
#99	1	Hideaki Sorachi	Japan	Writers	56.2	15.0
#100	1	Kuniko Inoguchi	Japan	Writers	56.2	0.0

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