Measured attention, not opinion polls: what people search for (Google Trends), what they read (Wikipedia page views) and what the news covers and how (GDELT, every 15 minutes). For what people think, see the opinion surveys.
Mora Tsu · Ya Tsu · Fukushima Mintomo · Akita Sakigake Shimpo · Sun Sun · Takaichi Sanae · Nakuna Tsu · Kemah Tsu · Mato Tsu · Ariyoshi Hiroyuki · Yamashita Tomohisa · Hakone Ekiden
High School · Instagram · United States · Reuters · Nvidia · Center Tokyo · White House · Kawai · Twitter · Office Office · Tv Asahi · Microsoft
"new" = first day in the trending list; "N days" = trending on N of the last 14 days. Traffic is Google's rounded search-volume band. GDELT themes are machine-tagged from articles published by outlets in the country (in any language); people and organisations are extracted automatically and can be noisy.
New in the lists today.
In the lists on most recent days (searches: 5+ of 14, pages: 10+ of 30).
Topics are keyword groups over GDELT's GKG themes; an article can be in several. Collection started in Oct 2026, so the history fills up from there.
| Topic | Here | All countries | More | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Energy | 18.5% | 11.0% | more here | Energy → |
| Crime | 12.7% | 22.9% | less here | |
| War & conflict | 12.3% | 20.3% | less here | |
| Jobs | 8.0% | 12.8% | less here | Jobs & cost of living → |
| Elections | 5.7% | 9.5% | less here | Politics → |
| Protest | 3.9% | 7.7% | less here | Politics → |
| AI | 3.7% | 2.5% | more here | |
| Migration | 2.0% | 3.6% | less here | Population & migration → |
| Climate | 1.2% | 1.8% | less here | Energy → |
| Cost of living | 1.1% | 2.4% | less here | Economy → |
| Health | 0.3% | 1.1% | less here | Population & migration → |
| Housing | 0.2% | 2.0% | less here | Economy → |
| Trade | 0.2% | 0.2% | Economy → | |
| Robotics | 0.1% | 0.1% | less here | Robotics → |
| Self-driving | 0.0% | 0.0% | more here | Self-driving → |
By the country of the outlet, not of the story. Tone is GDELT's average document tone (negative = more negative words). Countries with fewer than 50 (tone) or 200 (topic) articles in the week are left grey. Click a covered country to open its trends.
Wikipedia articles in the top lists of 3+ countries on the latest day.
Top pages in Japan that no other tracked country has in its list.
Sources: Source: Google Trends (hourly per country, every 3 h per region) · Source: Wikimedia Foundation pageviews API (daily top lists; language editions for the world view) · Source: The GDELT Project (15 min) · Source: Hacker News via the Algolia HN Search API. Not included: Reddit and YouTube (their APIs need keys), X (no open API), China's Google Trends and per-country Wikipedia lists (not published).
