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November 2025 · monthly · English Wikipedia and Japanese Wikipedia

The most-viewed articles of English Wikipedia and Japanese Wikipedia in the same month, matched article by article through Wikidata: what both read, and what only one of them reads.

English Wikipedia is read in English around the world; Japanese Wikipedia is read almost only in Japanese. These are pageviews of language editions, not of countries.

Pageviews of the Top 1000 in November 2025: English Wikipedia 750,913,806; Japanese Wikipedia 113,663,405.

We compare ranks, not raw pageviews. Ranks are Wikimedia's own; rows we do not show leave gaps (see the display policy).

Top 10 of each edition

Articles only: the main page and other non-article pages are left out.

English Wikipedia

RankArticlePageviews
3Google Chrome9,435,877
4Zohran MamdaniJapanese #2159,344,963
7Dharmendra4,662,651
9ChatGPTJapanese #4653,639,485
10Pluribus (TV series)3,530,411
11James A. Garfield3,524,531
12Rama Duwaji3,129,745
13Frankenstein (2025 film)3,118,832
141989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacreJapanese #2552,867,005
15Stranger Things season 52,852,406

Japanese Wikipedia

RankArticlePageviews
3Yoshinobu Yamamoto山本由伸English #1691,196,141
4Sanae Takaichi高市早苗English #910661,864
5Last Samurai Standingイクサガミ602,539
6Lafcadio Hearn小泉八雲601,628
7Shohei Ohtani大谷翔平English #74538,546
8ほな・いこかNo English article515,638
9Aonishiki Arata安青錦新大510,702
10Takashi Tachibana立花孝志486,088
11Tatsuya Nakadai仲代達矢466,655
12Maya Imamori今森茉耶452,858

Read in both

Articles in the Top 1000 of both editions, in order of the English rank.

ArticleEnglish WikipediaJapanese Wikipedia
Zohran Mamdani49,344,963215105,865
ChatGPT93,639,48546570,180
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre142,867,00525596,406
Stranger Things192,513,027131137,693
Jeffrey Epstein212,312,52135181,828
2026 FIFA World Cup qualification272,158,13089850,061
2026 FIFA World Cup282,155,565104155,447
Predator: Badlands292,015,17659162,835
2026 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)321,904,133228103,201
YouTube431,548,53236979,658
Donald Trump441,547,80940975,704
Sydney Sweeney531,314,20961161,379
Instagram651,223,79827692,179
Shohei Ohtani741,064,8007538,546
KPop Demon Hunters751,048,24771856,613
United States791,014,71727093,132
Michael Jackson84983,47144772,042
Cristiano Ronaldo90946,38055964,455
Wikipedia100896,28629887,992
List of presidents of the United States107859,43168157,972
2026 FIFA World Cup qualification (inter-confederation play-offs)114803,55870857,130
2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup119782,27835381,578
Thanksgiving123767,05934182,628
World War II135732,29535281,792
Adolf Hitler150699,69667957,987
Yoshinobu Yamamoto169671,56431,196,141
Hazbin Hotel216572,36338178,829
United Kingdom241528,94458163,367
World War I252514,21492049,346
Black Friday (shopping)274479,06619379,426
Max Scherzer279476,572206108,061
Los Angeles Dodgers296464,38071186,868
September 11 attacks327444,58755564,636
FIFA World Cup346428,30068657,743
China356424,20235781,122
Bruce Springsteen380408,77899347,325
2025 World Series401400,31186351,090
Japan402400,11990166,792
Will Smith (catcher)451375,946219105,107
Mookie Betts487366,988133135,960
Murder of Junko Furuta510362,206111150,041
Clayton Kershaw551347,932192112,515
Taiwan567343,52192166,708
Hong Kong595336,07327492,606
The Beatles596336,02183851,728
Toronto Blue Jays598335,79278183,923
Dave Roberts (baseball manager)620329,826165120,100
Vladimir Guerrero Jr.623329,325130137,859
Enrique Hernández (baseball)636327,23897159,649
Soviet Union701311,96876654,229
Cloudflare752298,75850568,145
Freddie Freeman846282,99628889,979
Sanae Takaichi910272,0174661,864
Bo Bichette916271,17185851,229
2025954265,76776254,408
Miguel Rojas (baseball)969263,84399159,479
Predator (film)997259,82752166,751

Read in one edition only

Articles in the top 100 of one edition that are in no other edition's Top 1000 (the first 5).

English Wikipedia

RankArticlePageviews
7Dharmendra4,662,651
10Pluribus (TV series)3,530,411
11James A. Garfield3,524,531
12Rama Duwaji3,129,745
13Frankenstein (2025 film)3,118,832

Japanese Wikipedia

RankArticlePageviews
5Last Samurai Standingイクサガミ602,539
6Lafcadio Hearn小泉八雲601,628
8ほな・いこかNo English article515,638
9Aonishiki Arata安青錦新大510,702
10Takashi Tachibana立花孝志486,088

Popular in Japanese, outside the English Top 1000

Articles in the top 100 of Japanese Wikipedia whose subject is not in the English Top 1000 that month (the first 10). Some have no English article at all.

ArticleJapanese WikipediaEnglish Wikipedia
Last Samurai Standingイクサガミ5602,539Below the Top 1000
Lafcadio Hearn小泉八雲6601,628Below the Top 1000
ほな・いこかNo English article8515,638No English article
Aonishiki Arata安青錦新大9510,702Below the Top 1000
Takashi Tachibana立花孝志10486,088Below the Top 1000
Tatsuya Nakadai仲代達矢11466,655Below the Top 1000
Maya Imamori今森茉耶12452,858Below the Top 1000
飯田圭織のバスツアーNo English article13445,092No English article
Shintaro Yokota横田慎太郎14411,728Below the Top 1000
NikiNo English article15398,671No English article

Biggest rank gaps

Articles in the Top 1000 of both editions, by the ratio of the two ranks.

Much higher in Japanese

ArticleEnglish WikipediaJapanese WikipediaRatio
Sanae Takaichi9104227.5
Yoshinobu Yamamoto169356.3
Black Friday (shopping)2741914.4
Shohei Ohtani74710.6
Miguel Rojas (baseball)969999.8

Much higher in English

ArticleEnglish WikipediaJapanese WikipediaRatio
Zohran Mamdani421553.8
ChatGPT946551.7
2026 FIFA World Cup qualification2789833.3
Predator: Badlands2959120.4
KPop Demon Hunters757189.6

Source

Pageviews: Wikimedia Foundation, Pageviews API, top articles of each month (user traffic).

Article matching: Wikidata sitelinks (retrieved 2026-11-14). Article names: English and Japanese Wikipedia.

The complete data: Topviews and the Wikimedia Analytics API.