# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/debito-arudou
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:40:58.170Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/debito-arudou"
name: "Debito Arudou"
slug: "debito-arudou"
description: "Debito Arudou  is an American-born Japanese writer, blogger, and human rights activist. He was born in the United States and became a naturalized Japanese citizen in 2000. Arudou has since left Japan after living in the country for over 20 years."
tagline: "Author/activist with Japanese citizenship born in the USA"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ArudouDebitoheadshot.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1965-01-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.54
  momentum:             0.6389452332657202
  historical:           7.942194666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.debito.org/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Debito_Arudou"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%88_%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%88"
    title: "ديبيتو ارودو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debito_Arudou"
    title: "Debito Arudou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debito_Arudou"
    title: "Debito Arudou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debito_Arudou"
    title: "Debito Arudou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%89%E9%81%93%E5%87%BA%E4%BA%BA"
    title: "有道出人"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%84%EB%A3%A8%EB%8F%84_%EB%8D%B0%EB%B9%84%ED%86%A0"
    title: "아루도 데비토"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debito_Arudou"
    title: "Debito Arudou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%89%E9%81%93%E5%87%BA%E4%BA%BA"
    title: "有道出人"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1069078"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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