# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/atsuya-furuta
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:48:33.110Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/atsuya-furuta"
name: "Atsuya Furuta"
slug: "atsuya-furuta"
description: "Atsuya Furuta is a Japanese former baseball player and player-manager for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows professional baseball club in the Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League. Drafted in the 2nd round in 1990, Furuta became a leader for the Swallows as a catcher and became the first player-manager in Japanese baseball in 29 years, since Katsuya Nomura in 1977. In addition to his skills on the field, he is also known for leading a successful two-day strike in 2004 as the head of the Japanese baseball players union."
tagline: "Japanese baseball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/YS-Atsuya-Furuta20190711-01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1965-08-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.12
  momentum:             10.93263515425984
  historical:           7.628541333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/atsuyafuruta/"
    handle:    "atsuyafuruta"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atsuya_Furuta"
    title: "Atsuya Furuta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "اتسويا فوروتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "اتسویا فوروتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%A4%E7%94%B0%E6%95%A6%E4%B9%9F"
    title: "古田敦也"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%9B%84%EB%A3%A8%ED%83%80_%EC%95%84%EC%93%B0%EC%95%BC"
    title: "후루타 아쓰야"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atsuya_Furuta"
    title: "Atsuya Furuta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%A4%E7%94%B0%E6%95%A6%E4%B9%9F"
    title: "古田敦也"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q484425"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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