# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/daisuke-inoue
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:32:52.070Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/daisuke-inoue"
name: "Daisuke Inoue"
slug: "daisuke-inoue"
description: "Daisuke Inoue  is a Japanese businessman best known as an inventor of the karaoke machine. Inoue, a musician in his youth employed in backing businesspeople who wanted to sing in bars, invented the machine as a means of allowing them to sing without live back-up. He did not patent the machine and so did not directly profit, but he continued to work in the industry it generated, including patenting a protective pesticide for karaoke machines. Named one of Time magazine's \"Most Influential Asians of the Century\" in 1999, he was awarded the Ig Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and in 2005 was the subject of the Japanese biographical film Karaoke."
tagline: "Japanese businessman"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1940-05-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.649644
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "井上大佑"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دايسوكي اينو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دايسوكى اينو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "দাইসুকে ইনোই"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisuke_Inoue"
    title: "Daisuke Inoue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisuke_Inoue"
    title: "Daisuke Inoue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisuke_Inoue"
    title: "Daisuke Inoue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisuke_Inoue"
    title: "Daisuke Inoue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisuke_Inoue"
    title: "Daisuke Inoue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%95%E4%B8%8A%E5%A4%A7%E4%BD%91"
    title: "井上大佑"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisuke_Inoue"
    title: "Daisuke Inoue"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisuke_Inoue"
    title: "Daisuke Inoue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisuke_Inoue"
    title: "Daisuke Inoue"
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  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inoue_Daisuke"
    title: "Inoue Daisuke"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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