PRIDE HOUSE TOKYO - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Freelance Editor and Writer
Yamagata is a freelance editor and writer with years of prior experience in the publishing industry. He began his work in the community volunteering in HIV prevention awareness activities around the year 2000. He helped run Tokyo's Pride parades since 2002 and was one of the founding members of Tokyo Rainbow Pride in May 2011. Head of the TRP since September 2012, he became co-president in August 2015. He retired from TRP in September 2019 and is now an advising director.