# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/koichi-toyama
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:59:29.539Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/koichi-toyama"
name: "Koichi Toyama"
slug: "koichi-toyama"
description: "Koichi Toyama  is a Japanese street musician and a fringe political activist who was a candidate for the governor of Tokyo in the year 2007. He was born in Kagoshima Prefecture and lives in Fukuoka. He gained notoriety with his provocative 2007 Tokyo gubernatorial election speech."
tagline: "Japanese busker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Toyama_kohichi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1970-07-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           63.71
  momentum:             4.75095785440613
  historical:           7.38144
  currentAttention:     4.597701149425287
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  230
  category: null
totalFollowers: 2690
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/toyamakoichi"
    handle:    "toyamakoichi"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/koichi.toyama.35"
    handle:    "koichi.toyama.35"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://warewaredan.com/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKioiroAnzYKZpPaZPU6-Xg"
    handle:    "@warewaredan"
    followers: 2690
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%96%E5%B1%B1%E6%81%92%E4%B8%80"
    title: "外山恒一"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koichi_Toyama"
    title: "Koichi Toyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dichi_Toyama"
    title: "Kōichi Toyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%96%E5%B1%B1%E6%81%92%E4%B8%80"
    title: "外山恒一"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%86%A0%EC%95%BC%EB%A7%88_%EC%BD%94%EC%9D%B4%EC%B9%98"
    title: "토야마 코이치"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koichi_Toyama"
    title: "Koichi Toyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koichi_Toyama"
    title: "Koichi Toyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D1%8F%D0%BC%D0%B0_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%97%D1%82%D1%96"
    title: "Тояма Коїті"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1192072"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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