Controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine

Quality:

Controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine - Controversies of a Shinto shrine in Japan. Article “Controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine” in English Wikipedia has 85 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 123 references and 26 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine”, its content was written by 178 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 574 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 108 times in English Wikipedia and cited 876 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #8080 in January 2014
• Global: #7836 in January 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #36249 in August 2021
• Global: #6518 in December 2013

There are 5 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine		84.9676
2	Chinese (zh) 靖國神社爭議		61.7933
3	Japanese (ja) 靖国神社問題		52.6576
4	French (fr) Controverses sur le sanctuaire Yasukuni		41.3627
5	Korean (ko) 야스쿠니 신사 논쟁		8.8359

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 靖国神社問題		2 399 727
2	English (en) Controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine		1 104 501
3	Chinese (zh) 靖國神社爭議		329 829
4	Korean (ko) 야스쿠니 신사 논쟁		78 878
5	French (fr) Controverses sur le sanctuaire Yasukuni		73 283

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine		9 248
2	Japanese (ja) 靖国神社問題		4 409
3	Chinese (zh) 靖國神社爭議		1 820
4	French (fr) Controverses sur le sanctuaire Yasukuni		691
5	Korean (ko) 야스쿠니 신사 논쟁		251

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 靖国神社問題		281
2	English (en) Controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine		178
3	Chinese (zh) 靖國神社爭議		61
4	French (fr) Controverses sur le sanctuaire Yasukuni		42
5	Korean (ko) 야스쿠니 신사 논쟁		12

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 靖国神社問題		2
2	Chinese (zh) 靖國神社爭議		1
3	English (en) Controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine		0
4	French (fr) Controverses sur le sanctuaire Yasukuni		0
5	Korean (ko) 야스쿠니 신사 논쟁		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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