Hideo Fukuyama

Hideo Fukuyama is the kind of guy who makes you realize how much grit goes into a motorsport career that never made the glossy headlines. Born in 1955 in Owase, Mie — a rugged coastal town battered by some of Japan's heaviest rainfall, tucked between mountains and the Kumano Sea — he came of age right when Japan's postwar economic boom was turning ordinary guys into speed obsessives, when Formula 1 broadcasts started crackling through TV sets and every kid with nerve wanted to race something. Growing up somewhere that unforgiving builds a certain toughness, and I can't help but feel that in a racing driver it counts for a lot. The record here is thin, sure, but sometimes that's exactly the kind of career I'm most curious about — the lifers who ran because they had to, not because the cameras were rolling.

Hideo Fukuyama is a Japanese racing driver born on August 13, 1955, in Owase, Mie Prefecture, Japan. He grew up in a coastal town on the Kumano Sea, known as one of Japan's heaviest-rainfall regions. He pursued a career in motorsport, competing as a car racing driver. Most personal details, including his agency affiliation and career timeline, remain private or unknown.

Name (English)

Hideo Fukuyama

Name (Japanese)

福山英朗

Reading

ふくやま ひでお

Born

August 13, 1955 (age 70)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Goat (未)

Origin

Owase, Mie Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Racing Driver

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A6%8F%E5%B1%B1%E8%8B%B1%E6%9C%97

Tags

• From Mie Prefecture
• Racing Driver
• Car Racer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.