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Top 100 Politicians in Japan

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest politicians in Japan, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 853 politicians tracked in Japan, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Xi Jinping, John F. Kennedy and Benjamin Netanyahu lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 1.3M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 52k, and the largest, Xi Jinping, reaches around 645k people in Japan. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Japan who actively engage with each politician, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Japan and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in Japan who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in Japan. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in Japan, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in Japan. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Malcolm X 59k 32.6 56.3% Politician
27 Winston Churchill 58k 40.4 100.0% Politician
28 Angela Merkel 58k 39.8 45.7% Politician
29 Che Guevara 53k 24.4 12.1% Politician
30 Ronald Reagan 49k 40.8 30.4% Politician
31 George W. Bush 47k 41.1 33.5% Politician
32 Aung San Suu Kyi 41k 25.1 55.1% Politician
33 Benjamin Franklin 40k 43.5 63.2% Politician
34 Fidel Castro 40k 50.9 63.6% Politician
35 Lee Hsien Loong 39k 39.9 39.9% Politician
36 Martin Luther King, Jr. 37k 38.0 61.4% Politician
37 Nigel Farage 36k 45.3 29.4% Politician
38 Ursula von der Leyen 36k 46.9 20.5% Politician
39 Victor Hugo 35k 39.4 60.8% Politician
40 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 34k 40.9 44.8% Politician
41 Al Gore 34k 40.7 31.0% Politician
42 Bashar al-Assad 32k 47.0 66.9% Politician
43 Adam Smith 32k 39.2 53.9% Politician
44 Bongbong Marcos 32k 43.2 79.0% Politician
45 Joseph Stalin 32k 40.8 25.9% Politician
46 Richard Nixon 29k 39.0 33.7% Politician
47 Keir Starmer 28k 32.6 56.6% Politician
48 Joseph Estrada 28k 37.6 57.0% Politician
49 Charles de Gaulle 27k 33.5 52.3% Politician
50 Tony Blair 27k 44.6 39.0% Politician

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Japan and ranks each politician by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest politician in Japan?

Xi Jinping currently leads with an estimated audience of 645k people in Japan.

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