# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/koji-tanigawa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:20:47.044Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/koji-tanigawa"
name: "Kōji Tanigawa"
slug: "koji-tanigawa"
description: "Kōji Tanigawa  is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 9-dan. He is the 17th Lifetime Meijin and also a former president of the Japan Shogi Association (JSA)."
tagline: "Japanese shogi player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tanigawa_kouji_shogi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1962-04-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.21
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.869485333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanigawa_K%C5%8Dji"
    title: "Tanigawa Kōji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "كوجي تانيغاوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dji_Tanigawa"
    title: "Kōji Tanigawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koji_Tanigawa"
    title: "Koji Tanigawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B0%B7%E5%B7%9D%E6%B5%A9%E5%8F%B8"
    title: "谷川浩司"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%83%80%EB%8B%88%EA%B0%80%EC%99%80_%EC%BD%94%EC%A7%80"
    title: "타니가와 코지"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%B8"
    title: "Танигава, Кодзи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1707789"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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