# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ritsuko-kawai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:16:59.480Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ritsuko-kawai"
name: "Ritsuko Kawai"
slug: "ritsuko-kawai"
description: "Ritsuko Kawai  is a Japanese manga artist known as the creator of the Hamtaro franchise."
tagline: "Japanese writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1964-03-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.96
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.117318666666666
  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/nm1175815/"
    handle:    "nm1175815"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/88c70f33-d3f0-43c0-baa9-ed3cd15ba3f3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%83%D9%88_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "ريتسوكو كاواى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritsuko_Kawai"
    title: "Ritsuko Kawai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritsuko_Kawai"
    title: "Ritsuko Kawai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritsuko_Kawai"
    title: "Ritsuko Kawai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritsuko_Kawai"
    title: "Ritsuko Kawai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B2%B3%E4%BA%95%E3%83%AA%E3%83%84%E5%AD%90"
    title: "河井リツ子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritsuko_Kawai"
    title: "Ritsuko Kawai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B2%B3%E4%BA%95%E5%BE%8B%E5%AD%90"
    title: "河井律子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3072264"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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