# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenji-higuchi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:20:58.787Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenji-higuchi"
name: "Kenji Higuchi"
slug: "kenji-higuchi"
description: "Kenji Higuchi  has been a professor of photography at several institutions in Tokyo, and an instructor at the Nippon Photography Institute . He is the eldest son of a farmer and at the age of 24 took up photography after viewing Robert Capa's famous war photos. He published some of the first images of nuclear workers toiling inside a reactor in 1977. Higuchi's photos mainly depict people and situations associated with nuclear issues and he won a Nuclear-Free Future Award."
tagline: "Japanese photographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%E6%A8%8B%E5%8F%A3%E5%81%A5%E4%BA%8C.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1937-03-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.29
  momentum:             2.777777777777778
  historical:           5.674118666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Higuchi"
    title: "Kenji Higuchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%8A_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A"
    title: "كينجي هيجوتشي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kend%C5%BEi_Higu%C4%8Di"
    title: "Kendži Higuči"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higuchi_Kenji"
    title: "Higuchi Kenji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Higuchi"
    title: "Kenji Higuchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A8%8B%E5%8F%A3%E5%81%A5%E4%BA%8C"
    title: "樋口健二"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5948437"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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