# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/naoko-yamazaki
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:12:46.363Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/naoko-yamazaki"
name: "Naoko Yamazaki"
slug: "naoko-yamazaki"
description: "Naoko Yamazaki  is a Japanese engineer and former astronaut at JAXA. She was the second Japanese woman to fly in space. The first was Chiaki Mukai."
tagline: "Japanese astronaut (1970-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Naoko_Yamazaki.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1970-12-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.1
  momentum:             0.4594861660079052
  historical:           21.898548
  currentAttention:     2.55270092226614
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/astro_naoko"
    handle:    "astro_naoko"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/astro_naoko/"
    handle:    "astro_naoko"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/AstronautNaokoYamazaki"
    handle:    "AstronautNaokoYamazaki"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
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    handle:    "naoko-yamazaki-9b777177"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7218825/"
    handle:    "nm7218825"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Naoko Yamazaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Naoko Yamazaki"
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    title: "נאוקו יאמאזאקי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Նաոկո Յամաձակի"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/131985"
    title: "Naoko Yamazaki"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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