# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aya-kito
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:59:24.096Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aya-kito"
name: "Aya Kitō"
slug: "aya-kito"
description: "Aya Kitō  was a Japanese diarist. She wrote about her personal experiences living with spinocerebellar ataxia which was later published in the book 1 Litre no Namida. The book has been translated into many languages and millions of copies are said to have been read around the world, and has also been made into a 2004 film and a 2005 television drama series from Fuji TV in which Asae Ônishi (movie) and Erika Sawajiri portrayed Kitō."
tagline: "Japanese diarist (1962–1988)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aya_Kit%C5%8D.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1962-07-19"
deathDate: "1988-05-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.05
  momentum:             8.013698630136986
  historical:           15.20170266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kito_Aya"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "أيا كيتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%8F_%D0%9A%D1%96%D1%82%D0%BE"
    title: "Ая Кіто"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%8F_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE"
    title: "Ая Кито"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aja_Kit%C3%B3"
    title: "Aja Kitó"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aya_Kit%C5%8D"
    title: "Aya Kitō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aya_Kit%C5%8D"
    title: "Aya Kitō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aya_Kit%C5%8D"
    title: "Aya Kitō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%DB%8C%D8%A7_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "آیا کیتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aya_Kit%C5%8D"
    title: "Aya Kitō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aya_Kit%C5%8D"
    title: "Aya Kitō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aya_Kit%C5%8D"
    title: "Aya Kitō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aya_Kit%C5%8D"
    title: "Aya Kitō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%2C_%D0%90%D1%8F"
    title: "Кито, Ая"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%B0_%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%B4%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%95"
    title: "อายะ คิโต"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kito_Aya"
    title: "Kito Aya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%A8%E8%97%A4%E4%BA%9E%E4%B9%9F"
    title: "木藤亞也"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2579630"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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