# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katsuzo-nishi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:06:16.782Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katsuzo-nishi"
name: "Katsuzō Nishi"
slug: "katsuzo-nishi"
description: "Katsuzō Nishi was the Japanese founder of Nishi Shiki in 1927, who was at that time the chief technical engineer for Japan's first subway project, the Tokyo subway. He was also an aikido teacher."
tagline: "Japanese aikidoka (1884-1959)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d6/Katsuzo-nishi-portrait.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1884-03-15"
deathDate: "1959-11-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.63
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.294062666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuz%C5%8D_Nishi"
    title: "Katsuzō Nishi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%88_%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%89"
    title: "كاتسوزو نيشى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuzo_Ni%C5%9Fi"
    title: "Katsuzo Nişi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%83%D1%9F%D0%BE_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8"
    title: "Кацуџо Ниши"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E5%8B%9D%E9%80%A0"
    title: "西勝造"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%BE"
    title: "Ниси, Кацудзо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6378263"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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