# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/motoko-arai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:29:54.548Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/motoko-arai"
name: "Motoko Arai"
slug: "motoko-arai"
description: "Motoko Arai is a Japanese science fiction and fantasy writer. Her writing is characterized by her use of a light conversational tone geared towards a young adult audience. She has published three series of novels and several short stories. Her works, Green Requiem and Neptune, received the Seiun Award for short story in 1981 and 1982."
tagline: "Japanese science fiction and fantasy writer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1960-08-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.396338666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1178139/"
    handle:    "nm1178139"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%B0%E4%BA%95%E7%B4%A0%E5%AD%90"
    title: "新井素子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%83%D9%88_%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "موتوكو أراي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoko_Arai"
    title: "Motoko Arai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoko_Arai"
    title: "Motoko Arai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88%DA%A9%D9%88_%D8%A2%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C"
    title: "موتوکو آرای"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoko_Arai"
    title: "Motoko Arai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%B0%E4%BA%95%E7%B4%A0%E5%AD%90"
    title: "新井素子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%97"
    title: "Мотоко Араї"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6918033"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1964953"
    title: "Motoko Arai"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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