# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kazuo-chiba
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:25:20.175Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kazuo-chiba"
name: "Kazuo Chiba"
slug: "kazuo-chiba"
description: "Kazuo Chiba was a Japanese aikido teacher and founder of Birankai International. He served for seven years as uchideshi at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo before being dispatched abroad to help develop Aikido internationally. He held an 8th dan in Aikido, issued by Aikikai world headquarters in Tokyo, Japan and was active in Aikido for over 50 years."
tagline: "Japanese aikidoka (1940–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/T.K_Chiba.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1940-02-05"
deathDate: "2015-06-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.08
  momentum:             16.98630136986301
  historical:           7.885566666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Kazuo Chiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%88_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%A7"
    title: "كازو شيبا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Chiba"
    title: "Kazuo Chiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Chiba"
    title: "Kazuo Chiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Chiba"
    title: "Kazuo Chiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Chiba"
    title: "Kazuo Chiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Chiba"
    title: "Kazuo Chiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%83%E8%91%89%E5%92%8C%E9%9B%84"
    title: "千葉和雄"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Chiba"
    title: "Kazuo Chiba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q675941"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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