# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shosei-koda
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:05:19.526Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shosei-koda"
name: "Shosei Koda"
slug: "shosei-koda"
description: "Shosei Koda  was a Japanese citizen who was kidnapped while touring Iraq and later beheaded in October 2004 by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group, al-Qaeda in Iraq. He was the first Japanese person beheaded in Iraq."
tagline: "Japanese murder victim (1979–2004)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f5/Beheading_japanese.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1979-11-29"
deathDate: "2004-10-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.41
  momentum:             7.575231481481481
  historical:           8.375998666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A6%99%E7%94%B0%E8%AF%81%E7%94%9F"
    title: "香田证生"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "شوسي كودا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%DB%86%D8%B3%DB%8E%DB%8C_%DA%A9%DB%86%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "شۆسێی کۆدا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Shosei_Koda"
    title: "Killing of Shosei Koda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shosei_Koda"
    title: "Shosei Koda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "شوسی کودا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shosei_Koda"
    title: "Shosei Koda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%BD%94%EB%8B%A4_%EC%87%BC%EC%84%B8%EC%9D%B4"
    title: "코다 쇼세이"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A1%D1%91%D1%81%D1%8D%D0%B9"
    title: "Кода, Сёсэй"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2575987"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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