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Yuta Kanai

Japanese actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ3546215 ↗
Source-derived summary

Yuta Kanai (金井 勇太, Kanai Yūta; born April 24, 1985) is a Japanese actor.

Personal life

Kanai was born and raised in Fussa, Tokyo, Japan.

In late 2012, Kanai announced on his blog that he had registered his marriage to his non-celebrity partner. He has two children, a son born on June 17, 2013, and another child born on June 1, 2018.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Yuta Kanai” is japanese actor. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Yuta, Kanai and Japanese, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 2012, 2013, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1985-04-24. For this dossier, Yuta, Kanai and Japanese is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “japanese actor” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3546215. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1985, 2012, 2013 and 2018.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “Yuta Kanai” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.