# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tetsuya-takahashi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:53:15.224Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tetsuya-takahashi"
name: "Tetsuya Takahashi"
slug: "tetsuya-takahashi"
description: "Tetsuya Takahashi  is a Japanese video game designer, writer and director. Takahashi worked at Square in the 90s as a graphic designer and graphic director, participating on some of their most well-received titles such as Final Fantasy V, Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger, before directing and co-writing Xenogears. He left Square in 1999 to co-found Monolith Soft, where he would develop the Xenosaga and Xenoblade series with Namco and Nintendo respectively, being the executive director of Xenoblade since the first entry in the series."
tagline: "Japanese writer, video game designer"
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: "1966-11-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.35164266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0994435/"
    handle:    "nm0994435"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump