# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/watari-handa
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:56:24.057Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/watari-handa"
name: "Watari Handa"
slug: "watari-handa"
description: "Watari Handa  was an officer and ace fighter pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific theater of World War II. In aerial combat over China and the Pacific, he was officially credited with having destroyed 13 enemy aircraft."
tagline: "Japanese flying ace"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Watari_Handa.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1911-08-22"
deathDate: "1948"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.478330666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watari_Handa"
    title: "Watari Handa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "واتارى هاندا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watari_Handa"
    title: "Watari Handa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%8A%E7%94%B0%E4%BA%98%E7%90%86"
    title: "半田亘理"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watari_Handa"
    title: "Watari Handa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%8A%E7%94%B0%E4%BA%98%E7%90%86"
    title: "半田亘理"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7973001"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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