# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/toru-takahashi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:04:52.427Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/toru-takahashi"
name: "Tōru Takahashi"
slug: "toru-takahashi"
description: "Toru Takahashi was a Japanese computer network researcher and businessman. He was credited with contributing to the spread of the Internet into Japan and the rest of Asia in the 1990s and was a pivotal figure in the early commercial development of the Internet. For this reason, he was often called the \"Father of the Internet\" in Japan."
tagline: "Japanese computer network scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Toru_Takahashi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1941-01-15"
deathDate: "2022-12-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.28
  momentum:             6
  historical:           6.738085333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahashi_T%C5%8Dru_(Internet)"
    title: "Takahashi Tōru (Internet)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%8A"
    title: "تورو تاكاهاشي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Dru_Takahashi_(Internetpionier)"
    title: "Tōru Takahashi (Internetpionier)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toru_Takahashi_(Internet)"
    title: "Toru Takahashi (Internet)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Dru_Takahashi"
    title: "Tōru Takahashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AB%98%E6%A9%8B%E5%BE%B9_(%E3%83%8D%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E7%A0%94%E7%A9%B6%E8%80%85)"
    title: "高橋徹 (ネットワーク研究者)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83"
    title: "Такахаси, Тору"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11671251"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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