# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shigeo-hayashi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:25:40.220Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shigeo-hayashi"
name: "Shigeo Hayashi"
slug: "shigeo-hayashi"
description: "Shigeo Hayashi  was a Japanese photographer. After three years of Army service he began his career as a photographer with the Japanese propaganda magazine FRONT, in 1943. In September 1945 he was one of two photographers assigned by the Special Committee for the Investigation of A-bomb Damage to document the aftermath of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In subsequent decades he worked as a commercial photographer. He died in 2002 at the age of 84."
tagline: "Japanese photographer (1918–2002)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Hiroshima_Dome_1945.gif/330px-Hiroshima_Dome_1945.gif"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1918"
deathDate: "2002-09-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.53
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.805652
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%BA%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%8A"
    title: "شيغيو هاياشي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0igeo_Haja%C5%A1i"
    title: "Šigeo Hajaši"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeo_Hayashi"
    title: "Shigeo Hayashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeo_Hayashi"
    title: "Shigeo Hayashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9E%97%E9%87%8D%E7%94%B7"
    title: "林重男"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6425784"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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