# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hideyuki-yokoyama
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:57:04.921Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hideyuki-yokoyama"
name: "Hideyuki Yokoyama"
slug: "hideyuki-yokoyama"
description: "Hideyuki Yokoyama  is a Japanese economist and politician who has served as the incumbent mayor of Osaka since 9 April 2023. He graduated from Kwansei Gakuin University with a degree in economics in 2004 and immediately began a career under the Osaka prefectural government. He was elected to the Osaka Prefectural Assembly in April 2011 and won a further two terms in April 2015 and April 2019. He was elected as Osaka Restoration Association / Nippon Ishin No Kai candidate for mayor of Osaka in the April 2023 Osaka mayoral election following the previous incumbent, Ichirō Matsui's retirement from politics following the defeat of the Osaka Metropolis Plan in a 2020 referendum. He was reelected in 2026."
tagline: "Japanese economist and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hideyuki_Yokoyama_20230411_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1981-05-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.72
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.146736
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/yokoyama_hide"
    handle:    "yokoyama_hide"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/yokoyama_hideyuki/"
    handle:    "yokoyama_hideyuki"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/%E5%A4%A7%E9%98%AA%E5%BA%9C%E8%AD%B0%E4%BC%9A%E8%AD%B0%E5%93%A1%20%E6%A8%AA%E5%B1%B1%E3%81%B2%E3%81%A7%E3%82%86%E3%81%8D"
    handle:    "大阪府議会議員 横山ひでゆき"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideyuki_Yokoyama"
    title: "Hideyuki Yokoyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideyuki_Yokoyama"
    title: "Hideyuki Yokoyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideyuki_Yokoyama"
    title: "Hideyuki Yokoyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A8%AA%E5%B1%B1%E8%8B%B1%E5%B9%B8"
    title: "横山英幸"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A9%AB%E5%B1%B1%E8%8B%B1%E5%B9%B8"
    title: "橫山英幸"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104013279"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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