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May 2026 · 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 May 2026: English Wikipedia 761,748,092; Japanese Wikipedia 113,915,872.

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
5Michael JacksonJapanese #1044,432,112
6Obsession (2025 film)4,110,425
7Deaths in 20264,039,786
9Michael (2026 film)3,246,757
102026 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election3,038,842
11Kyle Busch2,997,800
12Neatsville, Kentucky2,825,392
132026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election2,741,552
14Eurovision Song Contest 20262,670,551
15Murder of Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan2,627,160

Japanese Wikipedia

RankArticlePageviews
3Kazuko Hosoki細木数子1,927,605
4Wakana Yamazaki山崎和佳奈875,798
5Shinnosuke Abe阿部慎之助752,534
6Chiyoko Shimakura島倉千代子715,308
7Tōdō Takatora藤堂高虎656,477
8Rikuu Nishida西田陸浮624,570
9Hideki Hashigami橋上秀樹581,997
10Milk (boy band)M!LK511,891
13Toyotomi Hidenaga豊臣秀長455,190
14五十嵐淳子No English article445,989

Read in both

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

ArticleEnglish WikipediaJapanese Wikipedia
Michael Jackson54,432,112104154,550
2026 FIFA World Cup172,521,968205110,430
ChatGPT192,278,05258463,080
The Devil Wears Prada 2202,274,235106153,272
The Boys (TV series)321,799,037191116,563
The Mandalorian and Grogu331,773,538185117,967
YouTube471,302,57735181,329
Donald Trump501,251,62127691,595
Stanley Tucci631,077,36622799,740
United States641,077,27530587,833
Arsenal F.C.731,052,40071856,657
Anne Hathaway741,043,57457206,448
Instagram771,003,42530487,945
Cristiano Ronaldo81979,77426194,638
The Sheep Detectives84966,50682952,359
Wikipedia89947,77340676,600
Meryl Streep99886,68864195,773
Emily Blunt104869,350124143,043
UEFA Champions League111848,42239577,647
World War II124784,75355964,194
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie133756,60280553,402
Sean Strickland154685,88660761,617
Elon Musk155683,28859462,140
Lionel Messi165657,65139377,777
Ebola171647,66748869,167
Anna Wintour172643,32744973,014
FIFA World Cup180617,25840876,405
Mother's Day190596,20945572,078
Khamzat Chimaev195586,87765359,013
José Mourinho205566,07648169,691
Adolf Hitler214559,31372156,497
United Kingdom228543,36948969,043
Xi Jinping230539,00847570,402
Perfect Crown238523,12260161,799
Jensen Huang279480,84352366,777
Neymar306453,05668157,809
China338430,42095649,244
Taiwan360419,69178054,235
Oleksandr Usyk361418,48244473,544
Thucydides Trap378406,03344273,678
Pedro Pascal392397,46173056,082
The Mandalorian398395,88758205,767
The Beatles405392,10386951,473
September 11 attacks447367,29164159,820
Star Wars449367,01151218,382
Japan476356,582102154,918
BTS494349,86725196,100
Anthropic508345,95546071,692
Germany619310,15589350,784
United Arab Emirates694292,13482652,479
Bruce Lee697291,54570157,023
Witch Hat Atelier736283,143162124,566
Natalie Portman773276,45681353,091
Joshua Van780274,83734681,905
Forza Horizon 6817266,09225895,316
Hantavirus829264,38518390,563
X (social network)833263,52546371,439

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
6Obsession (2025 film)4,110,425
7Deaths in 20264,039,786
9Michael (2026 film)3,246,757
102026 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election3,038,842
11Kyle Busch2,997,800

Japanese Wikipedia

RankArticlePageviews
3Kazuko Hosoki細木数子1,927,605
4Wakana Yamazaki山崎和佳奈875,798
5Shinnosuke Abe阿部慎之助752,534
6Chiyoko Shimakura島倉千代子715,308
7Tōdō Takatora藤堂高虎656,477

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
Kazuko Hosoki細木数子31,927,605Below the Top 1000
Wakana Yamazaki山崎和佳奈4875,798Below the Top 1000
Shinnosuke Abe阿部慎之助5752,534Below the Top 1000
Chiyoko Shimakura島倉千代子6715,308Below the Top 1000
Tōdō Takatora藤堂高虎7656,477Below the Top 1000
Rikuu Nishida西田陸浮8624,570Below the Top 1000
Hideki Hashigami橋上秀樹9581,997Below the Top 1000
Milk (boy band)M!LK10511,891Below the Top 1000
Toyotomi Hidenaga豊臣秀長13455,190Below the Top 1000
五十嵐淳子No English article14445,989No 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
Hantavirus8291846.1
Star Wars449518.8
The Mandalorian398586.9
Japan4761024.7
Witch Hat Atelier7361624.5

Much higher in English

ArticleEnglish WikipediaJapanese WikipediaRatio
ChatGPT1958430.7
Michael Jackson510420.8
2026 FIFA World Cup1720512.1
The Sheep Detectives848299.9
Arsenal F.C.737189.8

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.