# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shoichi-watanabe
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:12:23.916Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shoichi-watanabe"
name: "Shōichi Watanabe"
slug: "shoichi-watanabe"
description: "Shōichi Watanabe  was a Japanese scholar of English and one of Japan's cultural critics. He is known for ultranationalist historical negationism."
tagline: "English scholar and critic"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1930-10-15"
deathDate: "2017-04-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.44
  momentum:             8.734318633241022
  historical:           6.481185333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dichi_Watanabe"
    title: "Shōichi Watanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%89_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%89"
    title: "شويتى واتانابى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dichi_Watanabe"
    title: "Shōichi Watanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dichi_Watanabe"
    title: "Shōichi Watanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dichi_Watanabe"
    title: "Shōichi Watanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B8%A1%E9%83%A8%E6%98%87%E4%B8%80"
    title: "渡部昇一"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%99%80%ED%83%80%EB%82%98%EB%B2%A0_%EC%87%BC%EC%9D%B4%EC%B9%98_(%EC%96%B8%EC%96%B4%ED%95%99%EC%9E%90)"
    title: "와타나베 쇼이치 (언어학자)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7506128"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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