# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hideo-yokoyama
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:53:38.439Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hideo-yokoyama"
name: "Hideo Yokoyama"
slug: "hideo-yokoyama"
description: "Hideo Yokoyama  is a Japanese novelist who specializes in mystery novels. He is also known for his career as a journalist for the Jomo Shimbun, the regional paper in Gunma. He repeated his Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! No. 1 ranking in 2013 with Six Four (64). The English edition of Six Four, translated by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies, was shortlisted for the 2016 CWA International Dagger."
tagline: "Japanese writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1957-01-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.76
  momentum:             10.19593067068576
  historical:           10.89447466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1887887/"
    handle:    "nm1887887"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A9%AB%E5%B1%B1%E7%A7%80%E5%A4%AB"
    title: "橫山秀夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "هيديو يوكوياما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "هيديو يوكوياما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideo_Yokoyama"
    title: "Hideo Yokoyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideo_Yokoyama"
    title: "Hideo Yokoyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideo_Yokoyama"
    title: "Hideo Yokoyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideo_Yokoyama"
    title: "Hideo Yokoyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A8%AA%E5%B1%B1%E7%A7%80%E5%A4%AB"
    title: "横山秀夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9A%94%EC%BD%94%EC%95%BC%EB%A7%88_%ED%9E%88%EB%8D%B0%EC%98%A4"
    title: "요코야마 히데오"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideo_Yokoyama"
    title: "Hideo Yokoyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokoyama_Hideo"
    title: "Yokoyama Hideo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1053737"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/126782"
    title: "Hideo Yokoyama"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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