Yasuo Fukuda was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from September 2007 to September 2008. Before that he was chief cabinet secretary from 2000 to 2004 under Yoshiro Mori and Junichiro Koizumi. He was the first son of a prime minister, Takeo Fukuda, to hold the office himself. He died in a Tokyo hospital on 22 October 2026, aged 90.

Born on 16 July 1936, he studied economics at Waseda University and worked for an oil company for nearly two decades before entering politics.