# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/genichi-kawakami
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:47:35.567Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/genichi-kawakami"
name: "Genichi Kawakami"
slug: "genichi-kawakami"
description: "Genichi Kawakami  was the president of the Yamaha Corporation from 1950 to 1977, and again from 1980 to 1983. He is often credited with the international success of Yamaha and was also widely influential as a community music educator."
tagline: "Japanese businessman (1912–2002)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1912-01-30"
deathDate: "2002-05-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.82
  momentum:             17.35724074920055
  historical:           6.89738
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/4021079"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawakami_Gen%E2%80%99ichi"
    title: "Kawakami Gen’ichi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genichi_Kawakami"
    title: "Genichi Kawakami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavakami_Genicsi"
    title: "Kavakami Genicsi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genichi_Kawakami"
    title: "Genichi Kawakami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B7%9D%E4%B8%8A%E6%BA%90%E4%B8%80"
    title: "川上源一"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%92%E1%83%94%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%A9%E1%83%98_%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%95%E1%83%90%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98"
    title: "გენიჩი კავაკამი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/01482f0e-6924-4248-9909-ebeeb71c0d90"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q941489"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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