# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sakizo-yai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:00:25.256Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sakizo-yai"
name: "Sakizō Yai"
slug: "sakizo-yai"
description: "Sakizō Yai was a Japanese businessman and the inventor of a type of dry cell battery."
tagline: "Japanese businessman and inventor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yai_Sakizo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1864-01-13"
deathDate: "1927-06-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.829772
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakiz%C5%8D_Yai"
    title: "Sakizō Yai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%8B%E4%BA%95%E5%85%88%E8%94%B5"
    title: "屋井先蔵"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%BC%EC%9D%B4_%EC%82%AC%ED%82%A4%EC%A1%B0"
    title: "야이 사키조"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakiz%C5%8D_Yai"
    title: "Sakizō Yai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakiz%C5%8D_Yai"
    title: "Sakizō Yai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11465649"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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