# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chen-kenichi
# Generated: 2026-09-01T10:47:44.007Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chen-kenichi"
name: "Chen Kenichi"
slug: "chen-kenichi"
description: "Ken'ichi Azuma , known professionally as Chen Kenichi  was a Chinese - Japanese chef and restaurateur, best known for his role as the Iron Chef Chinese on the television series Iron Chef (料理の鉄人)."
tagline: "Japanese chef (1956-2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kenichi_Chin_cropped_1_Yukio_Hattori_Hiromitsu_Nozaki_Mamoru_Kataoka_Takashi_Tamura_Kenichi_Chin_Yuji_Wakiya_and_Yoshimi_Hidaka_20180810.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Chefs"
  slug: "chefs"
profileType:
  name: "Chef"
  slug: "chef"
birthDate: "1956-01-05"
deathDate: "2023-03-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.24
  momentum:             6.385135135135133
  historical:           6.096974666666667
  currentAttention:     35.47297297297297
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 67
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Kenichi"
    title: "Chen Kenichi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A"
    title: "تشن كينيتشي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%89"
    title: "تشن كينيتشى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%B3%E5%BB%BA%E4%B8%80"
    title: "陳建一"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%B3%E5%BB%BA%E4%B8%80"
    title: "陳建一"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B2%B8_%EC%BC%80%EB%8B%88%EC%B9%98"
    title: "첸 케니치"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5090825"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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