# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/toshimi-kitazawa
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:41:10.472Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/toshimi-kitazawa"
name: "Toshimi Kitazawa"
slug: "toshimi-kitazawa"
description: "Toshimi Kitazawa  is a previous Japanese defence minister. He is a politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A native of Nagano City and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 1992 after serving in the assembly of Nagano Prefecture for five terms. He had joined the Democratic Party of Japan in 1998. On 16 September 2009; Kitazawa was appointed the Minister of Defence by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. He was re-appointed by Prime Minister Naoto Kan in the cabinet shift, and was the Minister of Defence until 2 September 2011."
tagline: "Japanese politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Toshimi_Kitazawa_Oct._21%2C_2009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1938-03-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.19
  momentum:             1.867704280155642
  historical:           6.777649333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www13.ocn.ne.jp/~kitazawa/"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E6%BE%A4%E4%BF%8A%E7%BE%8E"
    title: "北澤俊美"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshimi_Kitazawa"
    title: "Toshimi Kitazawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshimi_Kitazawa"
    title: "Toshimi Kitazawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshimi_Kitazawa"
    title: "Toshimi Kitazawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E6%BE%A4%E4%BF%8A%E7%BE%8E"
    title: "北澤俊美"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B8%B0%ED%83%80%EC%9E%90%EC%99%80_%EB%8F%84%EC%8B%9C%EB%AF%B8"
    title: "기타자와 도시미"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8"
    title: "Китадзава, Тосими"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1155846"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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