# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shidzue-kato
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:29:00.331Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shidzue-kato"
name: "Shidzue Katō"
slug: "shidzue-kato"
description: "Shidzue Katō , also published as Shidzue Ishimoto, was a 20th-century Japanese feminist and one of the first women elected to the Diet of Japan, best known as a pioneer in the birth control movement. She is known in the U.S. as the \"Margaret Sanger of Japan\"."
tagline: "Japanese politician (1897-2001)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/KATO_Shizue.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1897-03-02"
deathDate: "2001-12-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.22
  momentum:             0.3253012048192771
  historical:           14.72837066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ชิซูเอะ คาโต"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شيدزو كاتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shidzue Katō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kat%C5%8D_Shidzue"
    title: "Katō Shidzue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0izue_Kat%C3%B3"
    title: "Šizue Kató"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kat%C5%8D_Shizue"
    title: "Katō Shizue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shidzue_Kat%C5%8D"
    title: "Shidzue Katō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shidzue_Kat%C5%8D"
    title: "Shidzue Katō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%B2%D9%88_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "شیدزو کاتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shidzue_Kat%C5%8D"
    title: "Shidzue Katō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shidzue_Kat%C5%8D"
    title: "Shidzue Katō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shidzue_Kat%C5%8D"
    title: "Shidzue Katō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shidzue_Kat%C5%8D"
    title: "Shidzue Katō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8A%A0%E8%97%A4%E3%82%B7%E3%83%85%E3%82%A8"
    title: "加藤シヅエ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B7%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A1%E0%B5%8D%E2%80%8C%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%82_%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8B"
    title: "ഷിഡ്‌സ്യൂ കാറ്റോ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ਸ਼ਿਦਜ਼ੁਏ ਕਟੋ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Като, Сидзуэ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Katō Shidzue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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