# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-morikawa
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:40:24.618Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-morikawa"
name: "George Morikawa"
slug: "george-morikawa"
description: "George Morikawa  is a Japanese manga author known for the long-running series Hajime no Ippo. Born in Tokyo, Morikawa was inspired to become a manga artist upon reading Tetsuya Chiba's Harris no Kaze in elementary school."
tagline: "Japanese manga artist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1966-01-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.68516133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/WANPOWANWAN"
    handle:    "WANPOWANWAN"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2037021/"
    handle:    "nm2037021"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A3%AE%E5%B7%9D%E8%AE%93%E6%AC%A1"
    title: "森川讓次"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "جوجي موريكاوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Morikava"
    title: "George Morikava"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Morikawa"
    title: "George Morikawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Morikawa"
    title: "George Morikawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Morikawa"
    title: "George Morikawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Morikawa"
    title: "George Morikawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A3%AE%E5%B7%9D%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8"
    title: "森川ジョージ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AA%A8%EB%A6%AC%EC%B9%B4%EC%99%80_%EC%A1%B0%EC%A7%80"
    title: "모리카와 조지"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyoji_Morikawa"
    title: "Jyoji Morikawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C5%8Dji_Morikawa"
    title: "Jōji Morikawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morikawa_Jyoji"
    title: "Morikawa Jyoji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3101784"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4396168"
    title: "George Morikawa"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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