# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ryoji-arai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:18:10.102Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ryoji-arai"
name: "Ryōji Arai"
slug: "ryoji-arai"
description: "Ryōji Arai  is a Japanese illustrator. For his career contribution to \"children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense\" he won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2005, one of the largest cash prizes in children's literature."
tagline: "Japanese children's illustrator"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.31
  momentum:             5.102040816326529
  historical:           7.890534666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.ryoji-arai.info/"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%97_%D0%A0%D1%8C%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B6%D1%96"
    title: "Араї Рьоджі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%8Dji_Arai"
    title: "Ryōji Arai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%8Dji_Arai"
    title: "Ryōji Arai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%8Dji_Arai"
    title: "Ryōji Arai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8D%92%E4%BA%95%E8%89%AF%E4%BA%8C"
    title: "荒井良二"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%8Dji_Arai"
    title: "Ryōji Arai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%8Dji_Arai"
    title: "Ryōji Arai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A0%D1%91%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%B8"
    title: "Араи, Рёдзи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%8Dji_Arai"
    title: "Ryōji Arai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3268813"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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