# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hiroyoshi-nishizawa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:29:45.694Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hiroyoshi-nishizawa"
name: "Hiroyoshi Nishizawa"
slug: "hiroyoshi-nishizawa"
description: "Lieutenant Junior Grade Hiroyoshi Nishizawa  was a Japanese naval aviator and an ace of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service during World War II. Nishizawa was known to his colleagues as 'the Devil' for his breathtaking, brilliant, and unpredictable aerobatics and superb control of his aircraft while in combat. He was a member of the Tainan Kōkūtai's famous \"clean up trio\" with fellow aces Saburō Sakai and Toshio Ōta and would see action in the New Guinea campaign as well as in the aerial battles over Guadalcanal and over the Solomon Islands. He was killed in 1944 during the Philippines Campaign while aboard an IJN transport aircraft. It is possible that he was the most successful Japanese fighter ace of the war, reportedly telling his last CO that he had achieved a tally of 86 or 87 aerial victories- post war he was linked with scores of 147 or 103, but both of these scores have been considered inaccurate."
tagline: "Pilot for the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service during World War II (1920–1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hiroyoshi_Nishizawa_a.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1920-01-27"
deathDate: "1944-10-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.68
  momentum:             1.451905626134301
  historical:           13.93777733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "西泽广义"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هيرويوشي نيشيزاوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هيرويوشى نيشيزاوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nishizawa_Hiroyoshi"
    title: "Nishizawa Hiroyoshi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyoshi_Nishizawa"
    title: "Hiroyoshi Nishizawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyoshi_Nishizawa"
    title: "Hiroyoshi Nishizawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyoshi_Nishizawa"
    title: "Hiroyoshi Nishizawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyoshi_Nishizawa"
    title: "Hiroyoshi Nishizawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyoshi_Nishizawa"
    title: "Hiroyoshi Nishizawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyoshi_Nishizawa"
    title: "Hiroyoshi Nishizawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E6%B2%A2%E5%BA%83%E7%BE%A9"
    title: "西沢広義"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8B%88%EC%8B%9C%EC%9E%90%EC%99%80_%ED%9E%88%EB%A1%9C%EC%9A%94%EC%8B%9C"
    title: "니시자와 히로요시"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyoshi_Nishizawa"
    title: "Hiroyoshi Nishizawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyoshi_Nishizawa"
    title: "Hiroyoshi Nishizawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A5%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%91%D1%81%D0%B8"
    title: "Нисидзава, Хироёси"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirojo%C5%A1i_Ni%C5%A1izawa"
    title: "Hirojoši Nišizawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q715464"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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