# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kazuro-watanabe
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:33:24.565Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kazuro-watanabe"
name: "Kazurō Watanabe"
slug: "kazuro-watanabe"
description: "Kazuo Watanabe  is a Japanese amateur astronomer and prolific discoverer of minor planets. He was born in Hokkaidō, Japan and is a member of the Astronomical Society of Japan as well as of the Oriental Astronomical Association."
tagline: "Japanese amateur astronomer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1955-05-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.61
  momentum:             1.428571428571429
  historical:           17.74308933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ватанабе Кадзуро"
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    title: "كازورو واتانابى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kazurō Watanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazur%C3%B3_Watanabe"
    title: "Kazuró Watanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazur%C5%8D_Watanabe"
    title: "Kazurō Watanabe"
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    title: "Kazuro Watanabe"
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    title: "Kazurō Watanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuro_Watanabe"
    title: "Kazuro Watanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazur%C5%8D_Watanabe"
    title: "Kazurō Watanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Կաձուրո Վատանաբե"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kazuro Watanabe"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kazuro Watanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Watanabe"
    title: "Kazuo Watanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kazurō Watanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kazuro Watanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ватанабэ, Кадзуро"
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    title: "Kazuró Watanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kazuro Watanabe"
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    title: "கசுரோ வடானபே"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q561077"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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