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Yoshio Kodama (兒玉誉士夫)
Yoshio Kodama (兒玉誉士夫, 1911–1984) was a Japanese ultranationalist, wartime navy procurement agent in Shanghai, and postwar political fixer linking the yakuza, U.S. intelligence, and the ruling party, later central to the Lockheed bribery scandal.
Yoshio Koide
Yoshio Koide (小出 良夫) is a Japanese theoretical particle physicist known for the Koide formula, a 1982 relation among the electron, muon, and tau masses.
Yoshio Masui
Yoshio Masui (1931–2024) was a Japanese-born Canadian cell biologist at the University of Toronto who discovered maturation promoting factor (MPF) and cytostatic factor, opening the molecular study of the cell cycle.
Yoshio Nishi
Yoshio Nishi is a retired Sony senior vice president and chief technology officer who led development of the first commercial lithium-ion battery, launched in 1991.
Yoshio Okamoto
Yoshio Okamoto (岡本佳男), born 1941 in Osaka, is a Japanese polymer chemist who made the first helix-only chiral polymer and won the 2019 Japan Prize.
Yoshio Umezawa
Yoshio Umezawa (梅澤 喜夫), born 1944, is a Japanese analytical chemist, professor at Hokkaido and Tokyo universities, who developed fluorescent probes imaging signaling in single living cells.
Yoshio Yazaki
Yoshio Yazaki (矢崎義雄), born 1938, is a Japanese cardiologist who introduced molecular biology into cardiovascular research, co-authoring the 1988 endothelin discovery and identifying a mitochondrial DNA diabetes subtype.
Yoshiro Shimura
Yoshiro Shimura (志村令郎, 1932–2023) was a Japanese molecular biologist at Kyoto University who pioneered RNA processing and tRNA identity, won the 1994 Japan Academy Prize, and introduced Arabidopsis to Japanese plant biology.
Yoshiro Takahashi
Yoshiro Takahashi (高橋 義朗) is a Japanese atomic physicist and professor at Kyoto University known for the first topological Thouless pump with ultracold fermions and the first topological atom laser.
Yoshitaka Amano (天野喜孝)
Yoshitaka Amano (天野喜孝, born 1952, Shizuoka) is a Japanese painter and character designer: Tatsunoko anime (Gatchaman, Time Bokan), Final Fantasy logos and art since 1987, Vampire Hunter D illustrations, and international fine-art exhibitions.
Yoshitaka Fukada
Yoshitaka Fukada (深田 吉孝) is a Japanese chronobiologist and emeritus professor at the University of Tokyo known for identifying pinopsin, transducin farnesylation, and the circadian regulator FBXL21.
Yoshitaka Minami
Yoshitaka Minami (南佳孝) is a Japanese singer-songwriter born in 1950 in Tokyo who debuted in 1973 and is known for the 1979 hit Monroe Walk.
Yoshitaka Taguchi
Yoshitaka Taguchi (田口義隆), born in 1961, is a Japanese business executive and grandson of Seino's founder who has been president of Gifu-based trucking and logistics group Seino Holdings since 2003.
Yoshito Kaziro
Yoshito Kaziro (上代 淑人) was a Japanese biochemist at the University of Tokyo known for work on GTP in protein synthesis and signal transduction by G proteins.
Yoshito Kishi
Yoshito Kishi (岸義人) was a Japanese-born synthetic organic chemist at Harvard known for the Nozaki–Hiyama–Kishi reaction, the first total synthesis of palytoxin, and acyclic stereocontrol.
Yoshito Tobe
Yoshito Tobe (戸部義人) is a Japanese organic chemist who spent his main career at Osaka University, becoming professor in 1998, and is known for self-assembling porous molecular networks and the antiaromatic hydrocarbon s-indacene.
Yoshitoshi Abe
Yoshitoshi Abe (安倍吉俊, b. 1971), Japanese illustrator and character designer of Serial Experiments Lain; creator of Haibane Renmei; also NieA_7, Texhnolyze, RErideD, and the stalled Despera project.
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (松岡 禎丞)
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (松岡 禎丞), born 1986 in Hokkaido, is a Japanese voice actor with I'm Enterprise known for Kirito (Sword Art Online), Inosuke (Demon Slayer), Vash (Trigun), and a 2019 Guinness record for mobile game dialogue.
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜, "Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees") is a 1747 Japanese puppet play, one of the three great masterpieces of ningyō jōruri, adapted for kabuki within a year.
Yoshiwara (吉原)
Yoshiwara (吉原) was Edo's government-licensed pleasure quarter, founded 1617 near Nihonbashi and moved to Senzoku, Taitō, after the 1657 Meireki fire; a walled, moated district of over 100 brothels, debt-bonded courtesans, and ukiyo-e fame.
Yoshiya Kakimoto (柿本善也)
Yoshiya Kakimoto (柿本善也), born 7 February 1938 in Yamatotakada, is a former Ministry of Home Affairs bureaucrat who served four terms as governor of Nara Prefecture, Japan, from November 1991 to May 2007 before resigning to align elections with the unified local elections schedule.
Yoshiya Tanaka
Yoshiya Tanaka is a Japanese rheumatologist and physician-scientist at UOEH who led the 2017 RA-BEAM phase 3 trial establishing baricitinib for rheumatoid arthritis, and has presided over major rheumatology societies.
Yoshiyuki Kawazoe
Yoshiyuki Kawazoe (川添 良幸), born 1947 in Sendai, Japan, is a Japanese computational materials scientist known for first-principles simulation for materials design at Tohoku University.
Yoshiyuki Matsuoka
Yoshiyuki Matsuoka (松岡義之), born 1957 in Hyogo, Japanese judoka; Olympic gold, men's -65 kg, Los Angeles 1984; world silver 1983 and bronze 1985; later General Manager of the Komatsu women's judo team.
Yoshiyuki Sakaki
Yoshiyuki Sakaki (榊 佳之) is a Japanese genome scientist who led Japan's team in the Human Genome Project, directed RIKEN's Genomic Sciences Center, and served as president of Toyohashi University of Technology.
Yoshiyuki Tomino (富野由悠季)
Yoshiyuki Tomino (富野由悠季), born 1941 in Odawara, is the Japanese animation director who created Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) and directed Ideon, Dunbine, Turn A Gundam, and G-Reco; honored as Person of Cultural Merit and with the 2026 Order of the Rising Sun.
Yoshiyuki Tsuruta
Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (鶴田義行), Japanese breaststroke swimmer (1903–1986); won the 200 m breaststroke at Amsterdam 1928 and Los Angeles 1932, first Japanese swimming gold medalist and first man to retain a breaststroke title.
Yoshizo Koyanagi
Yoshizo Koyanagi (小柳美三, 1880–1954) was a Japanese ophthalmologist and first Professor of Ophthalmology at Tohoku Imperial University, whose 1929 report fixed his name in Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease.
Yoshkar-Ola
Yoshkar-Ola (Йошкар-Ола, "Red City"), formerly Tsarevokokshaisk and Krasnokokshaisk, is the capital of Mari El, Russia, founded in 1584 as the fortress Tsaryov city on Kokshaga by decree of Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich; population about 296,000.
Yōshoku (洋食)
Yōshoku (洋食) is Japanese-style Western cuisine from the Meiji era: dishes like tonkatsu, curry rice, and korokke adapted to Japanese tastes, served with rice and soy-sauce-based sauces, popularized in the Taishō period.