# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shomei-yokouchi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:07:14.930Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shomei-yokouchi"
name: "Shōmei Yokouchi"
slug: "shomei-yokouchi"
description: "Shōmei Yokouchi  was a Japanese politician. He represented the Yamanashi at-large district and later the Yamanashi 3rd district in the House of Representatives in the national Diet from 1993 until 2002 and was governor of Yamanashi Prefecture from 2007 until 2015. He was a graduate of the University of Tokyo Law Department."
tagline: "Japanese politician (1942-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yokouchi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1942-03-02"
deathDate: "2020-04-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.68
  momentum:             1.99438202247191
  historical:           4.615372
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dmei_Yokouchi"
    title: "Shōmei Yokouchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dmei_Yokouchi"
    title: "Shōmei Yokouchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A8%AA%E5%86%85%E6%AD%A3%E6%98%8E"
    title: "横内正明"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dmei_Yokouchi"
    title: "Shōmei Yokouchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dmei_Yokouchi"
    title: "Shōmei Yokouchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q732124"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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