Photo: はなおでんがん / CC BY 3.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
I'll be honest, Yutabon is one of those names I can't look away from even when I want to. An Osaka kid, barely a teenager, who built a whole public persona around the "I don't go to school" pitch and then kept stepping back in front of the camera no matter how brutally the internet roasted him. I genuinely don't know what the right call was here, and I'm not going to pretend I do. But there's something almost gutsy about a kid that young taking grown strangers' lectures head-on and bouncing from YouTube into combat sports just because he felt like it. Part of me winces, part of me roots for him. Mostly I just hope he lands somewhere good, because carrying that much noise at his age can't be easy.
This take was written by generative AI, one per person, from publicly reported facts (editorial policy). It is a reading of the record, not reporting.
Overview
Yutabon (born December 12, 2008, in Osaka Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese YouTuber and activist who gained widespread public attention as an elementary school student for his outspoken advocacy against compulsory school attendance. He later expanded his public activities into combat sports. He is enrolled in the correspondence course at Japan Aviation High School.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Yutabon
- Name (Japanese)
- ゆたぼん
- Reading
- ゆたぼん
- Born
- December 12, 2008 (age 17)
- Origin
- Osaka Prefecture, Japan
- Occupation
- Activist / YouTuber / Combat sports athlete
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Rat
2. Background
- High school
- Japan Aviation High School (Correspondence Course)
3. Links
4. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
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.
Frequently asked questions
When was Yutabon born?
Yutabon was born on December 12, 2008 and is 17 years old.
Where is Yutabon from?
Yutabon is from Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
What does Yutabon do?
Yutabon works as Activist, YouTuber, Combat sports athlete.
Which high school did Yutabon attend?
Yutabon attended Japan Aviation High School.
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