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March 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 March 2026: English Wikipedia 842,076,942; Japanese Wikipedia 111,682,468.

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
5Ali KhameneiJapanese #58,542,719
6Dhurandhar: The Revenge8,224,775
72026 Iran war7,025,933
8Chuck NorrisJapanese #2316,295,913
10Deaths in 20264,216,699
11IranJapanese #133,603,095
12Project Hail Mary (film)3,165,869
13Neatsville, Kentucky3,121,944
14Mojtaba Khamenei3,107,482
15One Battle After Another2,913,766

Japanese Wikipedia

RankArticlePageviews
3Lafcadio Hearn小泉八雲1,459,489
4World Baseball Classicワールド・ベースボール・クラシックEnglish #66639,552
5Ali Khameneiアリー・ハーメネイーEnglish #5587,511
6Masataka Yoshida吉田正尚500,374
7Milk (boy band)M!LK462,038
8Takenaka Shigeharu竹中重治451,979
9Shohei Ohtani大谷翔平428,031
10Toyotomi Hidenaga豊臣秀長425,982
11Ukyo Shuto周東佑京420,334
13IranイランEnglish #11394,384

Read in both

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

ArticleEnglish WikipediaJapanese Wikipedia
Ali Khamenei58,542,7195587,511
Chuck Norris86,295,913231101,455
Iran113,603,09513394,384
Benjamin Netanyahu162,884,678205107,339
ChatGPT222,314,87886952,786
Ruhollah Khomeini242,268,01192165,423
Donald Trump292,083,20391166,122
Strait of Hormuz302,063,09824278,412
Jeffrey Epstein341,855,37652208,581
Pete Hegseth351,788,16739378,964
Project Hail Mary371,749,738106154,586
2026 FIFA World Cup401,666,59735683,108
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi451,502,45144974,004
Supreme Leader of Iran531,458,88533485,729
Hoppers (film)571,378,77770759,427
2026 World Baseball Classic591,370,20940237,074
YouTube611,351,54140377,795
One Piece (2023 TV series)641,305,97566160,974
World Baseball Classic661,298,7554639,552
United States721,254,25125598,745
Masoud Pezeshkian741,245,87293151,173
Instagram771,185,71536482,312
Ryan Gosling811,150,84957465,862
Israel861,109,30184171,574
Timothée Chalamet881,092,82830389,408
Resident Evil Requiem921,051,14539241,045
Kharg Island941,038,42050469,976
Wikipedia108974,24229491,923
World War II114914,88956466,168
Alysa Liu115913,09930988,690
United Arab Emirates127843,309152123,630
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps142766,972125139,663
List of presidents of the United States161706,48635882,823
Iranian Revolution175678,458207107,130
Melania Trump201626,41672158,893
United Kingdom206615,30563462,089
Pokémon Pokopia218604,27440877,443
Iran–Iraq War220601,972232101,441
Emily Rudd222600,97962762,357
Resident Evil236585,54598159,508
Vietnam War239576,11894150,879
Michael Jackson241574,07862462,448
Saddam Hussein252565,31975057,529
Lebanon274537,44085153,676
One Piece290514,177245100,815
BTS298508,13659202,859
Gulf War329486,29434384,494
September 11 attacks334481,459166119,433
Attack on Pearl Harbor355467,43866660,862
Anthropic357465,88192051,484
Mackenyu363461,945118146,681
Iraq385448,38658565,305
Saudi Arabia397442,58997549,640
Chernobyl disaster461407,23062662,360
Osama bin Laden466406,39576656,911
Enhypen480395,70436882,158
Japan485394,54297161,412
Dubai491391,67452268,351
Iraq War499388,06750869,495
Jurassic World Rebirth510380,21065761,122
Shia Islam544368,74589352,174
USS Tripoli (LHA-7)546367,37382854,683
Goiânia accident571359,60826296,992
Stranger Things618341,002214105,654
Taiwan656332,44362362,486
List of One Piece characters693324,77739478,781
2026738312,88580555,380
Ariana Grande797300,082229101,811
Deaths in March 2026846288,51954067,333
Mark DeRosa890281,21852368,332
Aaron Judge912275,41929691,355
Abbas Araghchi940271,73250769,700
Yemen960268,26898049,467
Pokémon (video game series)994262,35667260,544

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
6Dhurandhar: The Revenge8,224,775
72026 Iran war7,025,933
10Deaths in 20264,216,699
12Project Hail Mary (film)3,165,869
14Mojtaba Khamenei3,107,482

Japanese Wikipedia

RankArticlePageviews
3Lafcadio Hearn小泉八雲1,459,489
6Masataka Yoshida吉田正尚500,374
7Milk (boy band)M!LK462,038
8Takenaka Shigeharu竹中重治451,979
9Shohei Ohtani大谷翔平428,031

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
Lafcadio Hearn小泉八雲31,459,489Below the Top 1000
Masataka Yoshida吉田正尚6500,374Below the Top 1000
Milk (boy band)M!LK7462,038Below the Top 1000
Takenaka Shigeharu竹中重治8451,979Below the Top 1000
Shohei Ohtani大谷翔平9428,031Below the Top 1000
Toyotomi Hidenaga豊臣秀長10425,982Below the Top 1000
Ukyo Shuto周東佑京11420,334Below the Top 1000
Hirokazu Ibata井端弘和14365,874Below the Top 1000
Setsuko Koizumi小泉節子15340,026Below the Top 1000
Golden Kamuyゴールデンカムイ17335,451Below the Top 1000

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
World Baseball Classic66416.5
BTS298595.1
Japan485975.0
Ariana Grande7972293.5
Aaron Judge9122963.1

Much higher in English

ArticleEnglish WikipediaJapanese WikipediaRatio
ChatGPT2286939.5
Chuck Norris823128.9
Benjamin Netanyahu1620512.8
Masoud Pezeshkian7493112.6
Hoppers (film)5770712.4

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.