# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kyotaro-nishimura
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:12:18.182Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kyotaro-nishimura"
name: "Kyōtarō Nishimura"
slug: "kyotaro-nishimura"
description: "Kyotaro Nishimura  was a Japanese novelist in the police procedural genre."
tagline: "Japanese novelist (1930-2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nishimura_Kyotaro_Museum-P1010867.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1930-09-06"
deathDate: "2022-03-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.6
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.757397333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1119161/"
    handle:    "nm1119161"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.i-younet.ne.jp/~kyotaro/"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E6%9D%91%E4%BA%AC%E5%A4%AA%E9%83%8E"
    title: "西村京太郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyotaro_Nishimura"
    title: "Kyotaro Nishimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyotaro_Nishimura"
    title: "Kyotaro Nishimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%8Dtar%C5%8D_Nishimura"
    title: "Kyōtarō Nishimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BF%D5%B5%D5%B8%D5%BF%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%B8_%D5%86%D5%AB%D5%B7%D5%AB%D5%B4%D5%B8%D6%82%D6%80%D5%A1"
    title: "Կյոտարո Նիշիմուրա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyotaro_Nishimura"
    title: "Kyotaro Nishimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E6%9D%91%E4%BA%AC%E5%A4%AA%E9%83%8E"
    title: "西村京太郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8B%88%EC%8B%9C%EB%AC%B4%EB%9D%BC_%EA%B5%90%ED%83%80%EB%A1%9C"
    title: "니시무라 교타로"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "کویوتارو نیشیمورا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1051441"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1197636"
    title: "Kyôtarô Nishimura"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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