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. Low profile, but the kind of low profile that tends to actually get things done.

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Takanori Yokosawa is a Japanese politician and former Paralympic alpine skier 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)

Origin

Iwate Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Alpine ski racer / Politician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rat

High school

Iwate Prefectural Morioka Technical High School

• 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
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65556950

Tags

• From Iwate Prefecture
• Alpine ski racer
• Politician

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.