# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hitoshi-motoshima
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:29:40.422Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hitoshi-motoshima"
name: "Hitoshi Motoshima"
slug: "hitoshi-motoshima"
description: "Hitoshi Motoshima  was a Japanese politician. He served four terms as mayor of Nagasaki from 1979 to 1995. He publicly made controversial statements about the responsibility of Japan and its then-reigning Emperor for World War II, and survived a retaliatory assassination attempt in 1990 by a right wing fanatic. His mayoral successor, Iccho Itoh, was killed in an unrelated assassination in 2007."
tagline: "Japanese politician (1922-2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1987-0530-016%2C_Berlin%2C_Besuch_Delegationen_aus_Japan_(cropped_2).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1922-02-20"
deathDate: "2014-10-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.87
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.976101333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%AC%E5%B3%B6%E7%AD%89"
    title: "本島等"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoshima_Hitoshi"
    title: "Motoshima Hitoshi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitoshi_Motoshima"
    title: "Hitoshi Motoshima"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoshima_Hitoshi"
    title: "Motoshima Hitoshi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%A7_%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B4%DB%8C"
    title: "موتوشیما هیتوشی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%AC%E5%B3%B6%E7%AD%89"
    title: "本島等"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AA%A8%ED%86%A0%EC%A7%80%EB%A7%88_%ED%9E%88%ED%86%A0%EC%8B%9C"
    title: "모토지마 히토시"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A5%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8"
    title: "Мотосима, Хитоси"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitoshi_Motoshima"
    title: "Hitoshi Motoshima"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoshima_Hitoshi"
    title: "Motoshima Hitoshi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q370595"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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