Takanori Yokosawa

There's something quietly compelling about a guy who spent his younger years hurtling down icy slopes at full speed and then decided the next challenge was politics. Takanori Yokosawa grew up in Iwate, which is cold, rural, and doesn't exactly breed people who quit easily — and alpine skiing, more than most sports, is a discipline where half a second of hesitation means you've already lost. What I find interesting is how that same mindset maps onto public service: you commit to the line, you hold your nerve, you don't flinch at the bottom. He's not a flashy name in either world, and I get the sense that's entirely by design. Born in '72, a Pisces with what I'd bet is a stubborn streak underneath the quiet surface — the kind of person who earns trust through consistency rather than headlines. Low profile, but the kind of low profile that tends to actually get things done.

Takanori Yokosawa is a Japanese alpine ski racer and politician born on March 6, 1972, in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. He attended Iwate Prefectural Morioka Technical High School and went on to pursue careers in both competitive skiing and politics. He maintains an official website at yokosawa.net and is active on social media under the handle TeamYokosawa.

Name (English)

Takanori Yokosawa

Name (Japanese)

横澤高徳

Reading

よこさわ たかのり

Born

March 6, 1972 (age 54)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rat (子)

Origin

Iwate Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Alpine ski racer / Politician

High school

Iwate Prefectural Morioka Technical High School

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://yokosawa.net/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/takanori.yokosawa/
• Xhttps://x.com/TeamYokosawa
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A8%AA%E6%BE%A4%E9%AB%98%E5%BE%B3

Tags

• From Iwate Prefecture
• Alpine ski racer
• Politician

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.