# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michio-hoshino
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:32:03.670Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michio-hoshino"
name: "Michio Hoshino"
slug: "michio-hoshino"
description: "Michio Hoshino  was a Japanese-born nature photographer. He originally hailed from Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture. Considered one of the most accomplished nature photographers of his era and compared to Ansel Adams, Hoshino specialized in photographing Alaskan wildlife until he was killed by a brown bear while on assignment in Kurilskoye Lake, Russia, in 1996."
tagline: "Japanese photographer (1952–1996)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-09-27"
deathDate: "1996-08-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.27512266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.michio-hoshino.com/"
sources:
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    title: "星野道夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88"
    title: "ميتشيو هوشينو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ميكيو هوشينو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michio_Hoshino"
    title: "Michio Hoshino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michio_Hoshino"
    title: "Michio Hoshino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%86%DB%8C%D9%88_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%88"
    title: "میچیو هوشینو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michio_Hoshino"
    title: "Michio Hoshino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michio_Hoshino"
    title: "Michio Hoshino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%9F%E9%87%8E%E9%81%93%E5%A4%AB"
    title: "星野道夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%98%B8%EC%8B%9C%EB%85%B8_%EB%AF%B8%EC%B9%98%EC%98%A4"
    title: "호시노 미치오"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michio_Hoshino"
    title: "Michio Hoshino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BE"
    title: "Хосино, Митио"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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