# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yuko-nakagawa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:50:37.827Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yuko-nakagawa"
name: "Yūko Nakagawa"
slug: "yuko-nakagawa"
description: "Yūko Nakagawa  is a Japanese politician in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). She represented Hokkaido in the House of Representatives from 2012 to 2017. Her husband, Shōichi Nakagawa, was also a politician, serving as Minister of Finance of Japan in 2008 and 2009. Nakagawa was born in Niigata Prefecture and graduated from University of the Sacred Heart in 1981. She worked at Mitsubishi for a year until her marriage to Shōichi, and moved to Hokkaido shortly afterward."
tagline: "Japanese politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Y%C5%ABko_Nakagawa%2C_Parliamentary_Secretary_for_Agriculture%2C_Forestry_and_Fisheries.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1958-12-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.42
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.246877333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 494
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/nakagawayuko"
    handle:    "nakagawayuko"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/yuko.nakagawa.355/"
    handle:    "yuko.nakagawa.355"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/yuko.nakagawa.355"
    handle:    "yuko.nakagawa.355"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://nakagawa-yuko.jp/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0DjqWowR22MKNGnKrFfX2Q"
    handle:    "@nakagawayuko"
    followers: 494
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABko_Nakagawa"
    title: "Yūko Nakagawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABko_Nakagawa"
    title: "Yūko Nakagawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E5%B7%9D%E9%83%81%E5%AD%90"
    title: "中川郁子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E5%B7%9D%E9%83%81%E5%AD%90"
    title: "中川郁子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1655755"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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