Masayoshi Yokoyama (横山 昌義 Yokoyama Masayoshi, born June 30, 1976) is a Japanese game producer, director and writer for Sega, most specifically Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, a studio within Sega Development Div.
[1][2][3] Yokoyama studied advertising and marketing and applied to various jobs as a planner, not knowing what it really meant.
In the end, he chose Sega because it seemed the most interesting to him, due to being asked very different questions during the interview process than other companies at the time.
[4] His first title since joining the workforce was Jet Set Radio where he did "menial tasks" and "everything he could" such as level design, voice recordings and enemy placement.
Yakuza 4 was the first game where he wrote multiple protagonists, and he enjoyed pulling inspirations such as Ryo Saeba from City Hunter for Shun Akiyama and screenwriter Kankuro Kudo for Taiga Saejima.
To a certain degree, he feels that the Like a Dragon series is a fantasy world with realism that allows for debates, such as if Kazuma Kiryu is still a virgin or not.