# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/masahide-ota
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:19:07.446Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/masahide-ota"
name: "Masahide Ōta"
slug: "masahide-ota"
description: "Masahide Ōta  was a Japanese academic and politician who served as the governor of Okinawa Prefecture from 1990 until 1998. After starting his career as a professor at the University of the Ryūkyūs, he wrote books in English and Japanese, mostly about the Battle of Okinawa and Japan–United States bilateral relations following World War II. After his retirement as professor he was elected as governor and was best known for his strong stand against occupation of prefectural lands by military bases of United States, going against the Japanese central government at the time."
tagline: "Japanese scholar and politician (1925-2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Masahide_Ota_cropped_1_Masahide_Ota_and_Ryutaro_Hashimoto_19970217.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1925-06-12"
deathDate: "2017-06-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.44
  momentum:             0.6749082208763646
  historical:           7.280784000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E7%94%B0%E6%98%8C%E7%A7%80"
    title: "大田昌秀"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahide_%C5%8Cta"
    title: "Masahide Ōta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahide_%C5%8Cta"
    title: "Masahide Ōta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahide_%C5%8Cta"
    title: "Masahide Ōta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahide_%C5%8Cta"
    title: "Masahide Ōta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E7%94%B0%E6%98%8C%E7%A7%80"
    title: "大田昌秀"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahide_%C5%8Cta"
    title: "Masahide Ōta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahide_%C5%8Cta"
    title: "Masahide Ōta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4661882"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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