# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kaoru-ishikawa
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:36:54.723Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kaoru-ishikawa"
name: "Kaoru Ishikawa"
slug: "kaoru-ishikawa"
description: "Kaoru Ishikawa  was a Japanese organizational theorist and a professor in the engineering faculty at the University of Tokyo who was noted for his quality management innovations. He is considered a key figure in the development of quality initiatives in Japan, particularly the quality circle. He is best known outside Japan for the Ishikawa or cause and effect diagram, often used in the analysis of industrial processes."
tagline: "Japanese business theorist (1915–1989)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1915-07-13"
deathDate: "1989-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump