# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hotaka-yamakawa
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:00:37.054Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hotaka-yamakawa"
name: "Hotaka Yamakawa"
slug: "hotaka-yamakawa"
description: "Hotaka Yamakawa  is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has previously played in NPB for the Saitama Seibu Lions. Yamakawa led the Pacific League in home runs in 2018, 2019, 2022, and 2024."
tagline: "Japanese baseball player (born 1991)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hotaka_Yamakawa_Hawks_20240329.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1991-11-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.28
  momentum:             3.942053558071111
  historical:           5.806488
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/hotamyon3/"
    handle:    "hotamyon3"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "ياماكاوا هوتاكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotaka_Yamakawa"
    title: "Hotaka Yamakawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E5%B7%9D%E7%A9%82%E9%AB%98"
    title: "山川穂高"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%BC%EB%A7%88%EC%B9%B4%EC%99%80_%ED%98%B8%ED%83%80%EC%B9%B4"
    title: "야마카와 호타카"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E5%B7%9D%E7%A9%97%E9%AB%98"
    title: "山川穗高"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15304363"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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