# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sogen-kato
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:49:31.323Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sogen-kato"
name: "Sogen Kato"
slug: "sogen-kato"
description: "Sogen Kato  was a Japanese man thought to have been Tokyo's oldest man until July 2010, when his mummified corpse was found in his bedroom. It was concluded he had likely died in November 1978, aged 79, and his family had never reported his death. Relatives had rebuffed attempts by ward officials to see Kato in preparations for Respect for the Aged Day later that year, citing many reasons from him being a \"human vegetable\" to becoming a sokushinbutsu. An autopsy could not determine the cause of Kato's death."
tagline: "1899-1978 Japanese man whose naturally-mummified body was recovered from his apartment in 2010"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1899-07-22"
deathDate: "1978"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.93
  momentum:             25
  historical:           8.621626666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8A%A0%E8%97%A4%E5%AE%97%E7%8F%BE"
    title: "加藤宗現"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sogen_Kato"
    title: "Sogen Kato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sogen_Kato"
    title: "Sogen Kato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%8Dgen_Kat%C5%8D"
    title: "Sōgen Katō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sogen_Kato"
    title: "Sogen Kato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oszustwo_rodziny_Kat%C5%8D"
    title: "Oszustwo rodziny Katō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%2C_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%8D%D0%BD"
    title: "Като, Согэн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%8B%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B8%87_%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%B2%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%95"
    title: "โซเง็ง คาโต"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kato_Sogen"
    title: "Kato Sogen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6902908"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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