# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yushi-tanaka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:04:38.377Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yushi-tanaka"
name: "Yushi Tanaka"
slug: "yushi-tanaka"
description: "Yushi Tanaka  is a Japanese badminton player who competes in the men's singles event. He achieved a career-high world ranking of No. 18. Hailing from Kikuchi, Kumamoto, he is a member of the Japan national team and plays for the NTT East Badminton Team since graduating from Nihon University in April 2022. In 2024, Tanaka won his first BWF World Tour title at the Super 300 Orléans Masters. He subsequently won two additional Super 300 titles, the 2024 U.S. Open and the 2026 Swiss Open, and finished as the runner-up at the 2025 Australian Open. Representing Japan, Tanaka was part of the squad that won the country's first men's team gold medal at the 2026 Asia Team Championships. Domestically, he is a two-time men's singles champion at the All Japan Championships, winning the title in 2021 and 2024."
tagline: "Japanese badminton player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yushi_Tanaka_(Cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1999-10-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.62
  momentum:             1.150125403081333
  historical:           4.912032
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/yushi.1999/"
    handle:    "yushi.1999"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yushi_Tanaka"
    title: "Yushi Tanaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yushi_Tanaka"
    title: "Yushi Tanaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%B0%E4%B8%AD%E6%B9%A7%E5%A3%AB"
    title: "田中湧士"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yushi_Tanaka"
    title: "Yushi Tanaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%B0%E4%B8%AD%E6%B9%A7%E5%A3%AB"
    title: "田中湧士"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106485922"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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