# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/masao-koga
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:28:49.840Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/masao-koga"
name: "Masao Koga"
slug: "masao-koga"
description: "Masao Koga  was a Japanese composer, mandolinist, and guitarist of the Shōwa era who was dubbed \"Japan's Irving Berlin\" by Universal Press Syndicate. His melancholy style, based upon Nakayama Shimpei's yonanuki scale, was popularly known in Japan as \"Koga melody\" . He was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure and the People's Honor Award for his contributions to Japanese music."
tagline: "Japanese musician (1904–1978)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Koga-Masao-1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1904-11-18"
deathDate: "1978-07-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.43
  momentum:             0.5241786637135475
  historical:           11.33860533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0463074/"
    handle:    "nm0463074"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1070424"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%A7"
    title: "ماساو كوجا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%A7"
    title: "ماساو كوجا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koga_Masao"
    title: "Koga Masao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masao_Koga"
    title: "Masao Koga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masao_Koga"
    title: "Masao Koga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%88_%DA%A9%D9%88%DA%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "ماسائو کوگا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masao_Koga"
    title: "Masao Koga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%A4%E8%B3%80%E6%94%BF%E7%94%B7"
    title: "古賀政男"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%BD%94%EA%B0%80_%EB%A7%88%EC%82%AC%EC%98%A4"
    title: "코가 마사오"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%A4%E8%B3%80%E6%94%BF%E7%94%B7"
    title: "古賀政男"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d89bc115-694f-4c5c-9186-c9c19f9bf84b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q485275"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3857257"
    title: "Masao Koga"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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