# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shigesato-itoi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:05:58.340Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shigesato-itoi"
name: "Shigesato Itoi"
slug: "shigesato-itoi"
description: "Shigesato Itoi  is a Japanese copywriter, essayist, lyricist, game designer, and actor. Itoi is the editor-in-chief of his website and company Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun. He is best known outside Japan for his work on Nintendo's Mother series of games, as well as his self-titled bass fishing video game."
tagline: "Japanese copywriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shigesato-Itoi-Meguro-September20-2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1948-11-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.25
  momentum:             8.663357560716186
  historical:           19.698056
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  195
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/itoi_shigesato"
    handle:    "itoi_shigesato"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0411790/"
    handle:    "nm0411790"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.1101.com/home.html"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "شيجيساتو إيتوي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شيچيساتو ايتوى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shigesato Itoi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shigesato Itoi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shigesato Itoi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شیگه‌ساتو ایتوی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shigesato Itoi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "이토이 시게사토"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigesato_Itoi"
    title: "Shigesato Itoi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigesato_Itoi"
    title: "Shigesato Itoi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Итои, Сигэсато"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shigesato Itoi"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Itoi Shigesato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "糸井重里"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "糸井重里"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/efc4181c-6bfb-4478-bd8e-f5a0ffa7b93b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2844009"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55665"
    title: "Shigesato Itoi"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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