# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/masaru-arai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:57:44.066Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/masaru-arai"
name: "Masaru Arai"
slug: "masaru-arai"
description: "Masaru Arai  is a Japanese amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets."
tagline: "Japanese astronomer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1952"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.94
  momentum:             0.4385964912280702
  historical:           14.204284
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Masaru Arai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماسارو اراى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Arai"
    title: "Masaru Arai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Arai"
    title: "Masaru Arai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Arai"
    title: "Masaru Arai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Arai"
    title: "Masaru Arai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Arai"
    title: "Masaru Arai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماسارو آرای"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Arai"
    title: "Masaru Arai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Arai"
    title: "Masaru Arai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%B8%D6%82_%D4%B1%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%AB"
    title: "Մասարու Արաի"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Arai"
    title: "Masaru Arai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%B0%E4%BA%95%E5%84%AA"
    title: "新井優"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%84%EB%9D%BC%EC%9D%B4_%EB%A7%88%EC%82%AC%EB%A3%A8"
    title: "아라이 마사루"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Arai"
    title: "Masaru Arai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Arai"
    title: "Masaru Arai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%83"
    title: "Араи, Масару"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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