# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yoshimi-watanabe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:32:34.440Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yoshimi-watanabe"
name: "Yoshimi Watanabe"
slug: "yoshimi-watanabe"
description: "Yoshimi Watanabe  is a former Japanese politician. He was formerly a member of the Liberal Democratic Party and later the founder of Your Party, after which he became a member of Nippon Ishin no Kai until 2019 when he then became an independent politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1996 to 2014, and returned to the Diet in 2016 as a member of the House of Councillors."
tagline: "Japanese politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yoshimi_Watanabe_cropped_1_YoshimiWatanabeJI1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1952-03-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           66.09
  momentum:             5.325301204819278
  historical:           6.962293333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  201
  category: null
totalFollowers: 10900
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/YWatanabeOffice"
    handle:    "YWatanabeOffice"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/yoshimiwatanabe443/"
    handle:    "yoshimiwatanabe443"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/watanabe.yoshimi.office"
    handle:    "watanabe.yoshimi.office"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.nasu-net.or.jp/~yoshimi/profile.html"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdoq8uWndbIeOD5ZSn34Hqg"
    handle:    "@渡辺よしみ-k8s"
    followers: 10900
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B8%A1%E9%82%8A%E5%96%9C%E7%BE%8E"
    title: "渡邊喜美"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A"
    title: "يوشيمي واتانابي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshimi_Watanabe"
    title: "Yoshimi Watanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshimi_Watanabe"
    title: "Yoshimi Watanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshimi_Watanabe"
    title: "Yoshimi Watanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshimi_Watanabe"
    title: "Yoshimi Watanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B8%A1%E8%BE%BA%E5%96%9C%E7%BE%8E"
    title: "渡辺喜美"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q361715"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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