Yūichirō Tamaki

When I hear "University of Tokyo grad, ex-bureaucrat, now a politician," I brace for a stiff, buttoned-up wonk who talks down to the room. So it always catches me off guard that Tamaki is the opposite kind of nerd: he gets visibly fired up, rattling off numbers at a hundred miles an hour about take-home pay and that infamous tax threshold, the sort of dry stuff that normally puts me straight to sleep. The fact that he can actually make it digestible tells me he's done the homework. There's something almost un-politician-like about how earnest and forward-leaning he is, and yeah, that eagerness occasionally trips him up. But honestly, that's part of the charm. He reads less like a slick operator and more like an over-caffeinated uncle who genuinely can't help himself, and I kind of root for him.

Yūichirō Tamaki is a Japanese politician born on May 1, 1969, in Sakawa-cho, Kagawa Prefecture. A graduate of the University of Tokyo, he began his career as a government bureaucrat before entering electoral politics. He is known for advocating economic policy reforms, particularly around household income and the tax burden on workers. As of 2024 he remains active in national politics and maintains a public presence through social media and television appearances.

Name (English)

Yūichirō Tamaki

Name (Japanese)

玉木雄一郎

Reading

たまき ゆういちろう

Born

May 1, 1969 (age 57)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rooster (酉)

Origin

Sakawa-cho, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Politician / Bureaucrat

University

University of Tokyo

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.tamakinet.jp/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/yuichiro.tamaki/
• Xhttps://x.com/tamakiyuichiro
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8E%89%E6%9C%A8%E9%9B%84%E4%B8%80%E9%83%8E

Tags

• From Kagawa Prefecture
• Politician
• Bureaucrat

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.