# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/junichi-masuda
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:49:16.940Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/junichi-masuda"
name: "Junichi Masuda"
slug: "junichi-masuda"
description: "Junichi Masuda  is a Japanese video game composer, director, designer, producer, singer, programmer and trombonist, best known for his work in the Pokémon franchise. He was a member of Game Freak where he was an employee and executive at the company since 1989 after Satoshi Tajiri and Ken Sugimori founded it, starting as a music composer. In 2022, Masuda was appointed to be Chief Creative Fellow at The Pokémon Company."
tagline: "Japanese video game developer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JunichiMasudaJI2_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1968-01-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.495114006514657
  historical:           23.504236
  currentAttention:     2.36
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  200
  category: 81
platforms:
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    title: "마스다 준이치"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill