# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-c-dobbins
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:44:39.149Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-c-dobbins"
name: "James C. Dobbins"
slug: "james-c-dobbins"
description: "James Carter Dobbins is an American academic, Japanologist and professor of religion and East Asian studies at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio."
tagline: "American Japanologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.52
  momentum:             1.052631578947368
  historical:           5.468934666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Dobbins"
    title: "James C. Dobbins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%B3._%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "جيمس س. دوبنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%B3._%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "جيمس س. دوبنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Dobbins"
    title: "James C. Dobbins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Dobbins"
    title: "James C. Dobbins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Dobbins"
    title: "James C. Dobbins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6130690"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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