# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/koshiro-tanaka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:41:40.155Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/koshiro-tanaka"
name: "Kōshirō Tanaka"
slug: "koshiro-tanaka"
description: "Koshiro Tanaka  is a Japanese martial artist and veteran of the Soviet–Afghan war. Tanaka left an office-job to confront his possible fear of death. He travelled to Peshawar then to the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and after joining Jamiat-e Islami, took up arms against the Soviet and Afghan government armies."
tagline: "Japanese Martial Artist and Soviet-Afghan War veteran"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1940"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.77
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.179784
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%B0%E4%B8%AD%E5%85%89%E5%9B%9B%E9%83%8E"
    title: "田中光四郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko%C5%9Firo_Tanaka"
    title: "Koşiro Tanaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koshiro_Tanaka"
    title: "Koshiro Tanaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%B0%E4%B8%AD%E5%85%89%E5%9B%9B%E9%83%8E"
    title: "田中光四郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8B%A4%EB%82%98%EC%B9%B4_%EA%B3%A0%EC%8B%9C%EB%A1%9C"
    title: "다나카 고시로"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koshiro_Tanaka"
    title: "Koshiro Tanaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE"
    title: "Танака, Косиро"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%B4%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%A3_%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B0"
    title: "โคชิโร ทานากะ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11575320"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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