# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ichiro-kishimi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:23:09.838Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ichiro-kishimi"
name: "Ichirō Kishimi"
slug: "ichiro-kishimi"
description: "Ichiro Kishimi is a Japanese philosopher and psychologist specializing in Western ancient philosophy and Adlerian psychology. Born in Kyoto Prefecture, he studied at Kyoto University but withdrew from the doctoral program in 1987 to care for his mother. Kishimi has taught at various institutions, including Kyoto University of Education, Konan University, and Nara Women's University.\nHe co-authored the bestseller The Courage to Be Disliked with Fumitake Koga, which has sold over one million copies since its publication in 2013. Since 2017, he has been writing for Courrier Japon and overseeing special features on Adlerian psychology."
tagline: "Japanese psychologist and philosopher (born 1956)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1956"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.6225680933852139
  historical:           5.791262666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/kishimi"
    handle:    "kishimi"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/kishimi/"
    handle:    "kishimi"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://kishimi.com"
sources:
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    title: "岸見一郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "إيشيرو كيشيمي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ichiro Kishimi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B2%B8%E8%A6%8B%E4%B8%80%E9%83%8E"
    title: "岸見一郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B8%B0%EC%8B%9C%EB%AF%B8_%EC%9D%B4%EC%B9%98%EB%A1%9C"
    title: "기시미 이치로"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Кишими Ичиро"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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