# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/okiharu-yasuoka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:45:58.973Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/okiharu-yasuoka"
name: "Okiharu Yasuoka"
slug: "okiharu-yasuoka"
description: "Okiharu Yasuoka  was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Kagoshima Prefecture and graduate of Chuo University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1972 as an independent. He later joined the LDP and served as the Minister of Justice from 2000 to 2001. He was later returned to the post of Minister of Justice under Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on 1 August 2008."
tagline: "Japanese politician (1939-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/OkiharuYasuoka.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1939-05-11"
deathDate: "2019-04-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.109686666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/o.yasuoka"
    handle:    "o.yasuoka"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.yasuoka.org/"
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okiharu_Yasuoka"
    title: "Okiharu Yasuoka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "اوكيهارو ياسوكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okiharu_Yasuoka"
    title: "Okiharu Yasuoka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okiharu_Yasuoka"
    title: "Okiharu Yasuoka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okiharu_Yasuoka"
    title: "Okiharu Yasuoka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okiharu_Yasuoka"
    title: "Okiharu Yasuoka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BF%9D%E5%B2%A1%E8%88%88%E6%B2%BB"
    title: "保岡興治"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%BC%EC%8A%A4%EC%98%A4%EC%B9%B4_%EC%98%A4%ED%82%A4%ED%95%98%EB%A3%A8"
    title: "야스오카 오키하루"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okiharu_Yasuoka"
    title: "Okiharu Yasuoka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q786752"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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