# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/riko-muranaka
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:40:59.577Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/riko-muranaka"
name: "Riko Muranaka"
slug: "riko-muranaka"
description: "Riko Muranaka  is a medical doctor, journalist and recipient of the 2017 John Maddox Prize for fighting to reduce cervical cancer and countering misinformation about the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine dominating the Japanese media, despite facing safety threats. Despite the lack of evidence, the HPV vaccine is infamous in Japan due to misattributed adverse effects, with government suspending promotion and coverage. While the World Health Organization (WHO) safety and efficacy information about the vaccine is consistent with Muranaka's reporting, a court ruled against Muranaka in an unrelated slander lawsuit in 2016 for claims of alleged fabrication. Under threat of legal harassment by antivaccine activists, publishers declined some of her works including a book on the HPV vaccine."
tagline: "Japanese doctor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sense_About_Science_John_Maddox_Price_2017_6.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1953"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.69
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.025992
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/rikomrnk"
    handle:    "rikomrnk"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/rikomuranaka"
    handle:    "rikomuranaka"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.rikomuranaka.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "ريكو موراناكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riko_Muranaka"
    title: "Riko Muranaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riko_Muranaka"
    title: "Riko Muranaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riko_Muranaka"
    title: "Riko Muranaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%91%E4%B8%AD%E7%92%83%E5%AD%90"
    title: "村中璃子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8B_%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%95"
    title: "റിക്കോ മുരാനക"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riko_Muranaka"
    title: "Riko Muranaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27150314"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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