# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenji-goto
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:29:05.884Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenji-goto"
name: "Kenji Gotō"
slug: "kenji-goto"
description: "Kenji Goto  was a Japanese freelance video journalist covering wars and conflicts, refugees, poverty, AIDS, and child education around the world. In October 2014, he was captured and held hostage by Islamic State (IS) militants after entering Syria in the hopes of rescuing Japanese hostage Haruna Yukawa. On 31 January 2015, he was beheaded by his captors led by Kuwaiti-British militant Jihadi John following the breakdown of negotiations for his release."
tagline: "Japanese journalist and hostage in Syria"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/Kenji_Goto.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1967-09-22"
deathDate: "2015-01-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.01
  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.10745066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/kenjigotoip"
    handle:    "kenjigotoip"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2702343/"
    handle:    "nm2702343"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://ipgoto.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "كينجي غوتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ཁཱན་ཇེ་གྷོ་ཌོ།"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Goto"
    title: "Kenji Goto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%C4%9Di_Goto"
    title: "Kenĝi Goto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kenji Goto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kenji Gotō"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kenji Goto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Goto"
    title: "Kenji Goto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Гото, Кэндзи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "කෙන්ජි ගොතෝ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Got%C5%8D"
    title: "Kenji Gotō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Got%C5%8D"
    title: "Kenji Gotō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BE%8C%E8%97%A4%E5%81%A5%E4%BA%8C"
    title: "後藤健二"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BE%8C%E8%97%A4%E5%81%A5%E4%BA%8C"
    title: "後藤健二"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11488414"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1117494"
    title: "Kenji Goto"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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