# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tsunemi-kubodera
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:59:35.175Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tsunemi-kubodera"
name: "Tsunemi Kubodera"
slug: "tsunemi-kubodera"
description: "Tsunemi Kubodera  is a Japanese zoologist with the National Museum of Nature and Science. On September 30, 2004, Kubodera and his team became the first people to photograph a live giant squid in its natural habitat. Two years later, on December 4, 2006, he also managed to successfully film a live adult giant squid for the first time ever. On July 10, 2012, Kubodera, together with Steve O'Shea and Edith Widder, became the first to film a live giant squid in its natural habitat from a submersible off the Bonin Islands."
tagline: "Japanese zoologist"
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: "1951"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.21422
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Tsunemi Kubodera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunemi_Kubodera"
    title: "Cunemi Kubodera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunemi_Kubodera"
    title: "Tsunemi Kubodera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunemi_Kubodera"
    title: "Tsunemi Kubodera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunemi_Kubodera"
    title: "Tsunemi Kubodera"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunemi_Kubodera"
    title: "Tsunemi Kubodera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AA%AA%E5%AF%BA%E6%81%92%E5%B7%B1"
    title: "窪寺恒己"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunemi_Kubodera"
    title: "Tsunemi Kubodera"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3330082"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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