# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/asano-soichiro
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:41:08.903Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/asano-soichiro"
name: "Asano Sōichirō"
slug: "asano-soichiro"
description: "Asano Sōichirō  was a Japanese businessman responsible for founding a number of companies, including what became today's Sapporo Breweries, Toa Construction Corporation, Oki Electric Industry, JFE Group and Taiheiyo Cement."
tagline: "Japanese businessman (1848-1930)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Asano_S%C5%8Dichir%C5%8D.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1848-04-13"
deathDate: "1930-11-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.63
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.907316
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asano_S%C5%8Dichir%C5%8D"
    title: "Asano Sōichirō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asano_S%C5%8Dichir%C5%8D"
    title: "Asano Sōichirō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asano_S%C5%8Dichir%C5%8D"
    title: "Asano Sōichirō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B5%85%E9%87%8E%E7%B7%8F%E4%B8%80%E9%83%8E"
    title: "浅野総一郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B7%BA%E9%87%8E%E7%B8%BD%E4%B8%80%E9%83%8E"
    title: "淺野總一郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4803533"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump