On December 4, Google released its 2025 Google Search Rankings, a compilation of keywords that rose sharply from January 1 to November 20 compared to last year.
Masahiro Nakai ranked first overall, while “Dodgers vs. Blue Jays,” in which Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto played a big role to win the MLB World Series, ranked fifth, and “Tokyo 2025 World Championships,” held for the third time in Japan, ranked eighth.
For the “Osaka-Kansai Expo,” which attracted more than 25 million visitors and became one of the symbolic events of this year’s Japan Expo, the ranking of keywords searched with “pavilion” was released.
Kuwait,” which was well-received by both children and adults alike, but had to fight an information war due to the difficulty of understanding how to enter without a reservation, came in first place; “Italy,” which exhibited many authentic artworks for the first time in Japan and Asia and had the longest waiting time without a reservation, came in second place; and “Turkmenistan,” whose overwhelming amount of light drew attention to its exterior, as well as the fact that it is difficult to travel there from Japan, allowed visitors to experience a little-known culture. Turkmenistan” came in at No. 8, with its overwhelming amount of light, attracting much attention to its exterior, as well as the fact that it is difficult to travel to from Japan, and visitors were able to experience a little-known culture.
In other Expo-related searches, “Myakmyak” ranked second in terms of keywords searched together with “stuffed toys. In addition, in the prefecture-by-prefecture ranking of “Osaka Prefecture,” Expo related keywords dominated the top five, with “Expo” in first place, “Osaka Municipal Museum of Art,” which is holding a special exhibition at the Italian Pavilion, in second place, “Blue Impulse,” which also held a revenge flight display in third place, and “Osaka Metro Chuo Line,” used by over 70% of visitors, in fourth place. The top five keywords related to the Expo were almost exclusively used in the top five.
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