# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fumio-niwa
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:58:14.982Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fumio-niwa"
name: "Fumio Niwa"
slug: "fumio-niwa"
description: "Fumio Niwa  was a Japanese novelist with a long list of works, the most famous in the West being his novel The Buddha Tree."
tagline: "Japanese writer (1904-2005)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fumio_Niwa_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1904-11-22"
deathDate: "2005-04-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.12
  momentum:             1.448863636363636
  historical:           9.657024
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1481947/"
    handle:    "nm1481947"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A4%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BE"
    title: "Нива, Фумио"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "فوميو نيوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BE_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B0"
    title: "Фумио Нива"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niwa_Fumio"
    title: "Niwa Fumio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fumio_Niwa"
    title: "Fumio Niwa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%A7_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%88"
    title: "نیوا فومیو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fumio_Niwa"
    title: "Fumio Niwa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fumio_Niwa"
    title: "Fumio Niwa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%B9%E7%BE%BD%E6%96%87%E9%9B%84"
    title: "丹羽文雄"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fumio_Niwa"
    title: "Fumio Niwa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1240552"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1117465"
    title: "Fumio Niwa"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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