# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yoshihiro-sakata
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:53:55.043Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yoshihiro-sakata"
name: "Yoshihiro Sakata"
slug: "yoshihiro-sakata"
description: "Yoshihiro Sakata (坂田好弘) is a rugby union official and former player who gained sixteen full international caps with the Japan national rugby union team 1967–1973. He played as wing for Kintetsu and Canterbury RFU and was nicknamed Demi Sakata. He was the first Japanese player to be inducted into the International Rugby Board Hall of Fame."
tagline: "Japanese rugby union player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yoshihiro_Sakata_Jan2017.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1942-09-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.39
  momentum:             5.958549222797927
  historical:           5.699930666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihiro_Sakata"
    title: "Yoshihiro Sakata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C5%A1ihiro_Sakata"
    title: "Jošihiro Sakata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihiro_Sakata"
    title: "Yoshihiro Sakata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%2C_%D0%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE"
    title: "Саката, Ёсихиро"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihiro_Sakata"
    title: "Yoshihiro Sakata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9D%82%E7%94%B0%E5%A5%BD%E5%BC%98"
    title: "坂田好弘"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11425506"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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