# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/faubion-bowers
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:29:43.074Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/faubion-bowers"
name: "Faubion Bowers"
slug: "faubion-bowers"
description: "Faubion Bowers was an American academic and writer in the area of Asian Studies, especially Japanese theatre. He also wrote the first full-length biography of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin. During the Allied Occupation of Japan, he was General Douglas MacArthur's personal Japanese language interpreter and assistant military secretary."
tagline: "American academic"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1917-01-29"
deathDate: "1999-11-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             14.21052631578947
  historical:           6.150181333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "فاوبيون بويرس"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faubion_Bowers"
    title: "Faubion Bowers"
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    title: "Faubion Bowers"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faubion_Bowers"
    title: "Faubion Bowers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "フォービアン・バワーズ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%88%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "فوبیون بوورز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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