# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-butow
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:41:55.215Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-butow"
name: "Robert Butow"
slug: "robert-butow"
description: "Robert Joseph Charles Butow was a professor emeritus of Japanese history at the University of Washington in Seattle. An author of several books, he was a leading authority on Japan during World War II."
tagline: "American historian (1924–2017)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1924-03-19"
deathDate: "2017-10-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.61
  momentum:             3.050847457627119
  historical:           6.536105333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Butow"
    title: "Robert Butow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "روبرت بوتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Butow"
    title: "Robert Butow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Butow"
    title: "Robert Butow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Butow"
    title: "Robert Butow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Butow"
    title: "Robert Butow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%93%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ロバート・ビュートー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7342547"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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