Kaiten

Kaiten-class human torpedo - 1944 class of Japanese human torpedoes. Article “Kaiten” in Simple English Wikipedia has 10.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is Japanese.

Since the creation of article “Kaiten”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 816 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1709 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3842 in August 2013
• Global: #17285 in December 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #11599 in December 2025
• Global: #14571 in August 2015

There are 26 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, 2026 (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) Kaiten		81.3041
2	Japanese (ja) 回天		73.1496
3	German (de) Kaiten (bemannter Torpedo)		69.1105
4	French (fr) Kaiten		57.3335
5	Italian (it) Kaiten		46.1906
6	Polish (pl) Kaiten		42.2387
7	Chinese (zh) 回天		36.8548
8	Turkish (tr) Kaiten		34.3924
9	Ukrainian (uk) Кайтен		29.7463
10	Indonesian (id) Kaiten		29.2504

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Kaiten" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 回天		4 011 635
2	English (en) Kaiten		2 323 940
3	Chinese (zh) 回天		346 451
4	Russian (ru) Кайтэн		343 438
5	Spanish (es) Kaiten		174 718
6	Italian (it) Kaiten		167 567
7	French (fr) Kaiten		165 593
8	Polish (pl) Kaiten		133 082
9	German (de) Kaiten (bemannter Torpedo)		50 833
10	Czech (cs) Kaiten		38 711

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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 "Kaiten" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 回天		10 207
2	English (en) Kaiten		7 231
3	Russian (ru) Кайтэн		1 106
4	German (de) Kaiten (bemannter Torpedo)		1 056
5	Chinese (zh) 回天		1 039
6	French (fr) Kaiten		442
7	Spanish (es) Kaiten		433
8	Italian (it) Kaiten		401
9	Polish (pl) Kaiten		234
10	Czech (cs) Kaiten		75

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kaiten		204
2	Japanese (ja) 回天		167
3	German (de) Kaiten (bemannter Torpedo)		72
4	Italian (it) Kaiten		61
5	French (fr) Kaiten		46
6	Russian (ru) Кайтэн		40
7	Polish (pl) Kaiten		39
8	Chinese (zh) 回天		37
9	Dutch (nl) Kaiten		27
10	Czech (cs) Kaiten		15

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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 "Kaiten" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kaiten		1
2	Arabic (ar) مركبة كايتن		0
3	Catalan (ca) Kaiten		0
4	Czech (cs) Kaiten		0
5	German (de) Kaiten (bemannter Torpedo)		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Kaiten (torpedo)		0
7	Spanish (es) Kaiten		0
8	Estonian (et) Kaiten		0
9	Basque (eu) Kaiten		0
10	French (fr) Kaiten		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 "Kaiten" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 回天		339
2	English (en) Kaiten		300
3	Ukrainian (uk) Кайтен		261
4	French (fr) Kaiten		238
5	Chinese (zh) 回天		182
6	Italian (it) Kaiten		98
7	Polish (pl) Kaiten		81
8	Korean (ko) 가이텐		46
9	Russian (ru) Кайтэн		44
10	German (de) Kaiten (bemannter Torpedo)		34

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مركبة كايتن
ca	Catalan Kaiten
cs	Czech Kaiten
de	German Kaiten (bemannter Torpedo)
en	English Kaiten
eo	Esperanto Kaiten (torpedo)
es	Spanish Kaiten
et	Estonian Kaiten
eu	Basque Kaiten
fr	French Kaiten
he	Hebrew קייטן
id	Indonesian Kaiten
it	Italian Kaiten
ja	Japanese 回天
ko	Korean 가이텐
lt	Lithuanian Kaiten
nl	Dutch Kaiten
no	Norwegian Kaiten
pl	Polish Kaiten
ru	Russian Кайтэн
simple	Simple English Kaiten
sk	Slovak Kaiten (torpédo)
sv	Swedish Kaiten
tr	Turkish Kaiten
uk	Ukrainian Кайтен
zh	Chinese 回天

Best Rank

Simple English: #11599 12.2025

Global: #14571 08.2015

Best Rank

Simple English: #3842 08.2013

Global: #17285 12.2003

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