# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jay-rubin
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:18:45.050Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jay-rubin"
name: "Jay Rubin"
slug: "jay-rubin"
description: "Jay Rubin is an American translator, writer, scholar and Japanologist. He is one of the main translators of the works of the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami into English. He has also written a guide to Japanese, Making Sense of Japanese, and a biographical literary analysis of Murakami."
tagline: "American translator and japanologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.34
  momentum:             1.735620585267407
  historical:           5.708534666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rubin"
    title: "Jay Rubin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "جاي روبين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%89_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "جاى روبين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%93%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ジェイ・ルービン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rubin"
    title: "Jay Rubin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rubin"
    title: "Jay Rubin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1684358"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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