# Satoru Someya

> Satoru Someya, who was a Japanese freelance journalist reporting on organized crime in Kabukichō, Tokyo, Japan, under the pen name Kuragaki Kashiwabara, was kidnapped and murdered in retaliation for his reporting about locksmiths and their involvement in thefts and for refusing to apologize to one of the subjects in a book before the fatal crime. He is the only journalist listed as confirmed by the Committee to Protect Journalists to be killed in Japan for his journalism.

*Japanese journalist*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/satoru-someya

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Journalist
- **Category:** Journalists
- **Country:** Japan
- **Born:** 1965
- **Died:** 2003-09-06
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 50.7 / 100
- **Momentum:** 25.0 / 100  (trend: BREAKOUT)
- **Historical depth:** 3.3 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 100.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 20.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 53.0 / 100

## Sources
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23044792)
- [Satoru Someya](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoru_Someya)
- [染谷悟](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9F%93%E8%B0%B7%E6%82%9F)
- [ساتورو سوميا](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7)

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