# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/taro-kono
# Generated: 2026-09-06T18:14:54.894Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/taro-kono"
name: "Taro Kono"
slug: "taro-kono"
description: "Taro Kono  is a Japanese politician who served as the Minister for Digital Transformation from 2022 to 2024. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), he previously served as Minister for Administrative Reform and Regulatory Reform from 2015 to 2016 and from 2020 to 2021, and was the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister of Defense under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. He is also a member of the House of Representatives representing Kanagawa's 15th district since 1996."
tagline: "Japanese politician (born 1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tar%C5%8D_K%C5%8Dno_20100712.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1963-01-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             10
  historical:           25.73956933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  43
  category: 163
totalFollowers: 148000
platforms:
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    handle:    "konotarogomame"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
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    handle:    "konotarogomame"
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    handle:    "河野太郎-168727046514485"
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    handle:    "@konotarogomame"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump