# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yoji-shinkawa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:55:52.148Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yoji-shinkawa"
name: "Yoji Shinkawa"
slug: "yoji-shinkawa"
description: "Yoji Shinkawa  is a Japanese artist. He is best known for collaborating extensively with video game director Hideo Kojima as the lead character and mechanical designer, and art director, for most of his games, including the entirety of the Metal Gear Solid franchise and the Death Stranding duology."
tagline: "Japanese artist and illustrator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yoji_Shinkawa_-_LCG25_-_1226_04_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1971-12-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.58
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.592564
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1070297/"
    handle:    "nm1070297"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yoji Shinkawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dji_Shinkawa"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "یوجی شینکاوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "იოჯი შინიკავა"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yoji Shinkawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yoji Shinkawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Синкава, Ёдзи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Yoji Shinkawa"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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