# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/taku-yamasaki
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:17:50.947Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/taku-yamasaki"
name: "Taku Yamasaki"
slug: "taku-yamasaki"
description: "Taku Yamasaki  is a retired Japanese politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1972 to 2003 and from 2005 to 2009. He directed the Director General of the Japan Defense Agency for two months in 1989, and served as Minister of Construction from 1991 to 1992. He was a prominent faction leader in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) during the late 1990s and early 2000s, and served as its Secretary-General and Vice President under Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi."
tagline: "Japanese politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Taku_Yamasaki-Public_speaking-20050409.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1936-12-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.96
  momentum:             0.7144217946275482
  historical:           6.069130666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/taku.yamasaki1211"
    handle:    "taku.yamasaki1211"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taku_Yamasaki"
    title: "Taku Yamasaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A"
    title: "تاكو ياماساكي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taku_Yamasaki"
    title: "Taku Yamasaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E5%B4%8E%E6%8B%93"
    title: "山崎拓"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E5%B4%8E%E6%8B%93"
    title: "山崎拓"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%BC%EB%A7%88%EC%82%AC%ED%82%A4_%EB%8B%A4%EC%BF%A0"
    title: "야마사키 다쿠"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q356760"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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