# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yoriko-kawaguchi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:05:01.728Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yoriko-kawaguchi"
name: "Yoriko Kawaguchi"
slug: "yoriko-kawaguchi"
description: "Yoriko Kawaguchi  is a Japanese politician and former economist, who served as a Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2002 to 2004 and continued as a special advisor to then-Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi for foreign affairs from 2004 to 2005. A member of Liberal Democratic Party, she previously served as a Japanese Minister of the Environment from 2000 to 2002. She was also a member of the House of Councillors for Liberal Democratic Party from 2005 to 2013. In July 2008, she was appointed co-chair of a new International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, with former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans."
tagline: "Japanese politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yoriko_Kawaguchi_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941-01-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.3
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.59921333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "川口顺子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ياوريكو كاواجوكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yoriko Kawaguchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoriko_Kawaguchi"
    title: "Yoriko Kawaguchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoriko_Kawaguchi"
    title: "Yoriko Kawaguchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoriko_Kawaguchi"
    title: "Yoriko Kawaguchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoriko_Kawaguchi"
    title: "Yoriko Kawaguchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoriko_Kawaguchi"
    title: "Yoriko Kawaguchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoriko_Kawaguchi"
    title: "Yoriko Kawaguchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "川口順子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "가와구치 요리코"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Кавагути, Ёрико"
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    title: "Каваґуті Йоріко"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q444899"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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