Photo: Cabinet Public Relations Office of the Cabinet Secretariat / CC BY 4.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Shin'ichi Yokoyama is one of those politicians who feels genuinely rooted in where he came from — born in 1959 in Obihiro, smack in the middle of Hokkaido's vast Tokachi Plain, he went on to study at Hokkaido University before making his way into politics. There's something about people who grow up surrounded by that much open land and agricultural grit that gives them a different kind of steadiness compared to the career politicians who seem to spring fully-formed from the concrete of Tokyo. No flashy headlines, no celebrity drama, just a guy who quietly built a career, keeps an official site running, stays active on social media well into his mid-sixties, and keeps showing up. Maybe that's exactly what a region like Hokkaido needs — not someone chasing the spotlight, but someone willing to just keep doing the work.
Overview
Shin'ichi Yokoyama is a Japanese politician born on July 21, 1959, in Obihiro, Hokkaido. He graduated from Hokkaido University and went on to build a career in politics. He maintains an official website and is active on social media including Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Shin'ichi Yokoyama
- Name (Japanese)
- 横山信一
- Reading
- よこやま しんいち
- Born
- July 21, 1959 (age 66)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Boar (亥)
- Origin
- Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Active years
- Unknown
- Occupation
- Politician
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Hokkaido University
- Debut
- Unknown
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttps://gagome-yokoyama.jp/
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/yokoyama_shinichi/
- Xhttps://x.com/gagomeyokoyama
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A8%AA%E5%B1%B1%E4%BF%A1%E4%B8%80
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.