# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-marshall-unger
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:37:31.809Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-marshall-unger"
name: "J. Marshall Unger"
slug: "j-marshall-unger"
description: "James Marshall Unger is emeritus professor of Japanese at the Ohio State University. He specializes in historical linguistics and the writing systems of East Asia, but he has also published on Japanese mathematics of the Edo period."
tagline: "American Japanologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-05-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.669474666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "J. Marshall Unger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%86%D8%BA%D8%B1"
    title: "جيمس مارشال أونغر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B1"
    title: "جيمس مارشال اونجر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BB"
    title: "Анджер, Джеймс Маршалл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC"
    title: "マーシャル・アンガー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Marshall_Unger"
    title: "James Marshall Unger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10304596"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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