Top 50 Authors in Japan

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest authors in Japan, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 855 authors tracked in Japan, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Saki, Ho Chi Minh and Stephen King lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 639,305 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 71,385, and the largest, Saki, reaches around 226,723 people in Japan. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Japan who actively engage with each author, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Japan and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Saki	226,723	22.2%	Author	Literature
2	Ho Chi Minh	212,802	4.7%	Author	Travel & Leisure
3	Stephen King	199,780	1.1%	Author	Literature
4	Charles Dickens	177,115	3.5%	Author	Literature
5	J. R. R. Tolkien	154,571	3.9%	Author	Literature
6	Osamu Dazai	140,122	12.5%	Author	Literature
7	Oscar Wilde	139,932	1.7%	Author	Literature
8	Jane Austen	119,000	1.0%	Author	Literature
9	Jane Goodall	105,555	0.6%	Author	Pets & Animals
10	Candace Owens	98,116	0.4%	Author	Literature
11	Agatha Christie	96,463	1.1%	Author	Literature
12	William Shakespeare	76,461	0.7%	Author	Literature
13	Napoleon Hill	74,749	2.6%	Author	Business & Career
14	Sarah J. Maas	73,744	1.8%	Author	Literature
15	Sophie Kinsella	67,074	2.0%	Author	Literature
16	Dr. Seuss	64,471	1.1%	Author	Literature
17	Helen Keller	64,432	0.6%	Author	Literature
18	Neil Gaiman	63,638	0.6%	Author	Literature
19	Alan Watts	61,886	2.7%	Author	Politics & Society
20	Edgar Allan Poe	58,531	0.7%	Author	Literature
21	Dan Brown	56,661	1.1%	Author	Literature
22	Nicholas Sparks	56,524	2.5%	Author	Literature
23	colleen hoover	54,039	0.8%	Author	Literature
24	Paul the Apostle	52,406	0.5%	Author	Politics & Society
25	Florence Nightingale	52,324	0.6%	Author	Politics & Society
26	Roald Dahl	51,473	0.8%	Author	Literature
27	Linus Torvalds	50,125	2.8%	Author	Technology & Electronics
28	George Orwell	49,288	0.7%	Author	Literature
29	Deepak Chopra	48,597	2.0%	Author	Health
30	Brandon Sanderson	48,492	1.2%	Author	Literature
31	Malala Yousafzai	47,087	1.1%	Author	Politics & Society
32	Charles Darwin	46,439	0.4%	Author	Business & Career
33	Anne Frank	46,123	0.3%	Author	Politics & Society
34	Noam Chomsky	45,360	1.0%	Author	Literature
35	Albert Camus	43,034	0.9%	Author	Literature
36	Kazuo Ishiguro	42,986	5.0%	Author	Literature
37	Franz Kafka	42,318	0.7%	Author	Literature
38	Confucius	42,272	2.1%	Author	Literature
39	James Patterson	41,219	1.7%	Author	Literature
40	George R. R. Martin	38,106	1.0%	Author	Literature
41	Ernest Hemingway	37,865	0.8%	Author	Literature
42	Virginia Woolf	37,430	0.8%	Author	Literature
43	Simon Sinek	37,098	1.5%	Author	Business & Career
44	Eric Carle	35,684	5.0%	Author	Literature
45	Amal Clooney	34,497	0.4%	Author	Politics & Society
46	Nostradamus	33,180	0.6%	Author	Politics & Society
47	Kurt Vonnegut	32,205	2.1%	Author	Literature
48	Mario Vargas Llosa	30,516	0.3%	Author	Literature
49	Heather Graham	30,453	0.5%	Author	Literature
50	Caroline Kennedy	30,332	0.4%	Author	Politics & Society