Sho Yano
Overview
is an American
United States
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 child prodigy
Child prodigy
A child prodigy is someone who, at an early age, masters one or more skills far beyond his or her level of maturity. One criterion for classifying prodigies is: a prodigy is a child, typically younger than 18 years old, who is performing at the level of a highly trained adult in a very demanding...

 with an estimated IQ of 200 (meaning his IQ cannot be measured by any existing test, 200 is the max score of IQ tests). Yano's father, Katsura, is originally from Japan
Japan
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 and his mother, Kyung, is originally from South Korea
South Korea
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Yano reportedly was reading by age 2, writing by age 3, playing classical music on the piano at age 4 and composing by age 5. He went to the Mirman School
Mirman school
Mirman School for Gifted Children is an independent, co-educational school for gifted children located at 16180 Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, California, United States with 330 pupils aged 5 to 14...

 as a child.
 
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