# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/makoto-hasegawa
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:58:54.649Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/makoto-hasegawa"
name: "Makoto Hasegawa"
slug: "makoto-hasegawa"
description: "Makoto Hasegawa is a Japanese basketball coach and a former player. Hasegawa was the head coach of Akita Northern Happinets. He is the first Japanese player ever to play in the American Basketball Association. Because of his trademark bushy goatee, his nickname is \"hige\" in Akita. He played for Kosei Club and Akita Northern Bisons as an amateur in his home prefecture. Currently he serves as an unaffiliated director of the Akita Happinets and the Japan national 3x3 team coach."
tagline: "Japanese basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hasegawa_makoto_akita.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1971-04-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.86
  momentum:             10.05681818181818
  historical:           4.852704
  currentAttention:     55.87121212121212
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "ماكوتو هاسيغاوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "ماكوتو هاسيجاوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto_Hasegawa_(basketball)"
    title: "Makoto Hasegawa (basketball)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto_Hasegawa"
    title: "Makoto Hasegawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%95%B7%E8%B0%B7%E5%B7%9D%E8%AA%A0"
    title: "長谷川誠"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11653976"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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