# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/teruo-higa
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:40:07.264Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/teruo-higa"
name: "Teruo Higa"
slug: "teruo-higa"
description: "Teruo Higa  is a professor at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, to the south of the main Japanese archipelago, and grew up there. Following his graduation from the Department of Agriculture, University of the Ryukyus, he took his doctorate from the Agricultural Research Department of Kyushu University Graduate School, eventually returning to join the teaching staff of the University of the Ryukyus as lecturer in 1970, becoming assistant professor two years later. He became Professor of Horticulture in 1982.\nHe pioneered the development of \"effective microorganism\" products. He is a Master of Health and Nutrition with The Beijing DeTao Masters Academy (DTMA), a high-level, multi-discipline, application-oriented higher education institution in Shanghai, China."
tagline: "Microbiologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1941-12-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.35
  momentum:             5.723684210526315
  historical:           6.761269333333335
  currentAttention:     31.79824561403509
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teruo_Higa"
    title: "Teruo Higa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teruo_Higa"
    title: "Teruo Higa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teruo_Higa"
    title: "Teruo Higa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%88_%D9%87%DB%8C%DA%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "تروو هیگا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teruo_Higa"
    title: "Teruo Higa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teruo_Higa"
    title: "Teruo Higa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AF%94%E5%98%89%E7%85%A7%E5%A4%AB"
    title: "比嘉照夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q706038"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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