# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shigeru-yokota
# Generated: 2026-08-20T20:57:50.156Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shigeru-yokota"
name: "Shigeru Yokota"
slug: "shigeru-yokota"
description: "The Yokota family, husband Shigeru and wife Sakie along with their twin sons Takuya and Tetsuya founded the Japanese National Association for the Rescue of Japanese Kidnapped by North Korea in 1997. The Association supports the victims of North Korea's abductions of Japanese citizens in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Yokotas' daughter Megumi was kidnapped in 1977 by North Korean spies; her current whereabouts are unknown."
tagline: "Japanese human rights activist whose daughter Megumi Yokota was abducted by North Korea (1932-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shigeru_Yokota_cropped_1_Shigeo_Iizuka_Caroline_Kennedy_Shigeru_Yokota_Sakie_Yokota_and_Glyn_Davies_20140130_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1932-11-14"
deathDate: "2020-06-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.9
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.46606
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  46
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Yokota"
    title: "Shigeru Yokota"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A8%AA%E7%94%B0%E6%BB%8B"
    title: "横田滋"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11543401"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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