# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nao-cola-yamazaki
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:31:50.232Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nao-cola-yamazaki"
name: "Nao-cola Yamazaki"
slug: "nao-cola-yamazaki"
description: "Nao-Cola Yamazaki  is the professional name of Naoko Yamazaki , a Japanese writer. Yamazaki claims to write \"things no one else can say in words anyone can understand\". Yamazaki's writing, however, won the Bungei Prize and the Shimase Award for Love Stories, being nominated multiple times for the Akutagawa Prize. Nao-Cola has suggested to use something like the gender-neutral singular \"they\", because being frustrated by the usage of \"she\" at the English Wikipedia."
tagline: "Japanese novelist and essayist (1978-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nao-cola.jpg?width=1200"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1978-09-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.29
  momentum:             2.452595585949643
  historical:           6.477549333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/naocolayamazaki"
    handle:    "naocolayamazaki"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/yamazaki_nao_cola/"
    handle:    "yamazaki_nao_cola"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2513912/"
    handle:    "nm2513912"
sources:
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E5%B4%8E%E3%83%8A%E3%82%AA%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9"
    title: "山崎ナオコーラ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nao-Cola_Jamazaki"
    title: "Nao-Cola Jamazaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nao-C%C5%8Dra_Yamazaki"
    title: "Nao-Cōra Yamazaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nao-Cola_Yamazaki"
    title: "Nao-Cola Yamazaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nao-cola_Yamazaki"
    title: "Nao-cola Yamazaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nao-Cola_Yamazaki"
    title: "Nao-Cola Yamazaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11467933"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1776855"
    title: "Naocola Yamazaki"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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