# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maejima-hisoka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:45:03.672Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maejima-hisoka"
name: "Maejima Hisoka"
slug: "maejima-hisoka"
description: "Baron Maejima Hisoka , born Ueno Fusagorō , was a Japanese statesman, politician, and businessman in Meiji-period Japan. Maejima founded the Japanese postal service, and is known as Yūbin Seido no Chichi (郵便制度の父), or \"Father of the Postal System\"."
tagline: "Japanese politician (1835-1919)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maejima_Hisoka_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1835-01-24"
deathDate: "1919-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.6403
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%89%8D%E5%B3%B6%E5%AF%86"
    title: "前島密"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maejima_Hisoka"
    title: "Maejima Hisoka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maejima_Hisoka"
    title: "Maejima Hisoka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maejima_Hisoka"
    title: "Maejima Hisoka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%89%8D%E5%B3%B6%E5%AF%86"
    title: "前島密"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EC%97%90%EC%A7%80%EB%A7%88_%ED%9E%88%EC%86%8C%EC%B9%B4"
    title: "마에지마 히소카"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maejima_Hisoka"
    title: "Maejima Hisoka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%89%8D%E5%B2%9B%E5%AF%86"
    title: "前岛密"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q282292"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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