Higher education in Japan

Higher education in Japan - overview of higher education in Japan. Article “Higher education in Japan” in English Wikipedia has 65.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 60 references and 13 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.45 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Higher education in Japan” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Higher education in Japan”, its content was written by 91 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 174 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 53 times in English Wikipedia and cited 148 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #55320 in January 2017
• Global: #18007 in June 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #169940 in July 2020
• Global: #211439 in July 2020

There are 6 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) Higher education in Japan		65.5214
2	Japanese (ja) 日本の高等教育		30.8838
3	Chinese (zh) 日本高等教育		29.7333
4	Indonesian (id) Pendidikan tinggi di Jepang		28.2482
5	Arabic (ar) التعليم العالي في اليابان		14.7706
6	Azerbaijani (az) Yaponiyada ali təhsil		9.0553

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Higher education in Japan" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Higher education in Japan		768 462
2	Japanese (ja) 日本の高等教育		229 270
3	Chinese (zh) 日本高等教育		30 132
4	Arabic (ar) التعليم العالي في اليابان		22 730
5	Azerbaijani (az) Yaponiyada ali təhsil		4 743
6	Indonesian (id) Pendidikan tinggi di Jepang		1 468

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Higher education in Japan" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Higher education in Japan		3 306
2	Japanese (ja) 日本の高等教育		1 309
3	Chinese (zh) 日本高等教育		198
4	Azerbaijani (az) Yaponiyada ali təhsil		25
5	Arabic (ar) التعليم العالي في اليابان		20
6	Indonesian (id) Pendidikan tinggi di Jepang		15

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

Language versions of the article "Higher education in Japan" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Higher education in Japan		91
2	Japanese (ja) 日本の高等教育		63
3	Chinese (zh) 日本高等教育		10
4	Arabic (ar) التعليم العالي في اليابان		4
5	Indonesian (id) Pendidikan tinggi di Jepang		4
6	Azerbaijani (az) Yaponiyada ali təhsil		2

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

Language versions of the article "Higher education in Japan" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 日本の高等教育		15
2	English (en) Higher education in Japan		1
3	Arabic (ar) التعليم العالي في اليابان		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Yaponiyada ali təhsil		0
5	Indonesian (id) Pendidikan tinggi di Jepang		0
6	Chinese (zh) 日本高等教育		0

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

Language versions of the article "Higher education in Japan" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 日本の高等教育		71
2	English (en) Higher education in Japan		53
3	Arabic (ar) التعليم العالي في اليابان		8
4	Chinese (zh) 日本高等教育		8
5	Indonesian (id) Pendidikan tinggi di Jepang		5
6	Azerbaijani (az) Yaponiyada ali təhsil		3

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic التعليم العالي في اليابان
az	Azerbaijani Yaponiyada ali təhsil
en	English Higher education in Japan
id	Indonesian Pendidikan tinggi di Jepang
ja	Japanese 日本の高等教育
zh	Chinese 日本高等教育

Best Rank

English: #169940 07.2020

Global: #211439 07.2020

Best Rank

English: #55320 01.2017

Global: #18007 06.2025

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