# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/masahiro-yamada
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:53:41.234Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/masahiro-yamada"
name: "Masahiro Yamada"
slug: "masahiro-yamada"
description: "Masahiro Yamada  is a Japanese sociologist known for coining popular sociological terms like parasite singles and gap-widening society . A graduate of University of Tokyo, he now teaches at Tokyo Gakugei University as professor."
tagline: "Japanese sociologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1957-11-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.242696
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Masahiro_Yamada"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "ماساهيرو يامادا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahiro_Yamada_(sociologist)"
    title: "Masahiro Yamada (sociologist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88_%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "ماساهیرو یامادا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahiro_Yamada"
    title: "Masahiro Yamada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E7%94%B0%E6%98%8C%E5%BC%98"
    title: "山田昌弘"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahiro_Yamada"
    title: "Masahiro Yamada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E7%94%B0%E6%98%8C%E5%BC%98"
    title: "山田昌弘"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4307105"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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