Yuichiro Uozumi

There's something quietly compelling about a guy who grows up in rural Wakayama, grinds his way into the University of Tokyo, passes the bar, and then decides that being a lawyer isn't enough — he wants a seat at the table where the laws actually get made. That's not ambition for its own sake; that reads more like someone who looked at the system, got frustrated from the outside, and thought "fine, I'll fix it myself." Born in 1952, he belongs to the generation that watched Japan's economic miracle, its bubble, and its long hangover all play out in real time, which tends to sharpen your opinions about how policy actually works. The Wakayama-to-Kasumigaseki pipeline is rare enough that it says something about the man — there's a particular kind of drive that comes from proving yourself far from home, and Uozumi has had that trajectory written all over his career.

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Yuichiro Uozumi is a Japanese politician and lawyer born on August 1, 1952, in Kaisō District, Wakayama Prefecture. He graduated from the University of Tokyo and has pursued careers in both law and politics. A member of Komeito, he served four terms in the House of Councillors from 1995 to 2019, first for Tokyo and then in the national proportional block, and did not run again in 2019.

Name (English)

Yuichiro Uozumi

Name (Japanese)

魚住裕一郎

Reading

うおずみ ゆういちろう

Born

August 1, 1952 (age 74)

Origin

Kaiso-gun, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Politician / Lawyer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Dragon

University

University of Tokyo

• Official sitehttp://www.uozumi.gr.jp
• Xhttps://x.com/uozumi_yuichiro
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AD%9A%E4%BD%8F%E8%A3%95%E4%B8%80%E9%83%8E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8060488

Tags

• From Wakayama Prefecture
• Politician
• Lawyer

Last updated

October 18, 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.