# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sakae-menda
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:33:30.908Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sakae-menda"
name: "Sakae Menda"
slug: "sakae-menda"
description: "Sakae Menda  was a Japanese man who was wrongfully convicted of a double-homicide and sentenced to death in 1949, but was later exonerated by retrial in 1983. This was the first time anyone was ever released from death row by retrial in Japan. He was a leading figure in Japan for the movement to abolish the death penalty."
tagline: "Japanese activist (1925-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sakae_Menda.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1925-11-04"
deathDate: "2020-12-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.26
  momentum:             2.068965517241379
  historical:           6.551225333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menda_Sakae"
    title: "Menda Sakae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakae_Menda"
    title: "Sakae Menda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakae_Menda"
    title: "Sakae Menda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D9%85%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "ساکای مندا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakae_Menda"
    title: "Sakae Menda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakae_Menda"
    title: "Sakae Menda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%8D%E7%94%B0%E6%A0%84"
    title: "免田栄"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1399231"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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