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Yuichi Nakamura (中村 悠一) (voice actor)
Yuichi Nakamura (中村悠一), born 1980 in Kagawa, Japan, is a seiyuu and narrator famous as Satoru Gojo in Jujutsu Kaisen and Bucciarati in JoJo, twice Most Valuable Seiyu and two-time Crunchyroll Award winner; distinct from the 1987-born actor of the same name.
Yuichi Shimakawa
Yuichi Shimakawa (島川 祐一) is a Japanese solid-state chemist and professor at Kyoto University's Institute for Chemical Research since 2003, known for discovering giant magnetoresistance in the pyrochlore oxide Tl2Mn2O7 in 1996.
Yuichi Tsuda
Yuichi Tsuda (津田雄一) is a Japanese aerospace engineer at JAXA's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, best known as project manager of the Hayabusa2 asteroid sample-return mission from 2015 to 2022.
Yūichirō Miura (三浦雄一郎)
Yūichirō Miura (三浦雄一郎), Japanese extreme skier born 1932; first to ski Everest's South Col in 1970 and Guinness record holder as oldest Everest summiteer at 80 years 223 days in 2013.
Yuichiro Takagi
Yuichiro Takagi is a structural biologist and Associate Professor with tenure at Indiana University School of Medicine, known for the 2011 Mediator Head module structure and cryo-EM methods.
Yuichiro Tamaki
Yuichiro Tamaki is a Japanese politician and former Finance Ministry bureaucrat who has led the Democratic Party for the People since 2020, winning a third term in September 2026.
Yūichirō Umehara
Yūichirō Umehara (梅原裕一郎) is a Japanese voice actor from Shizuoka Prefecture, affiliated with Arts Vision, known for his deep voice and roles such as Goblin Slayer.
Yuigahama Beach
Yuigahama Beach (由比ヶ浜海岸) is Kamakura's main public swimming beach on Sagami Bay, Kanagawa, Japan; a bathing resort since the 1880s nicknamed 'Ginza of the Sea', with a July–August season, softboard surf area, and Kamakura-period battle and ritual history.
Yuja Wang (王羽佳)
Yuja Wang (王羽佳), Chinese classical pianist born in Beijing in 1987, Curtis-trained under Gary Graffman; 2007 Boston Symphony breakthrough replacing Argerich, Deutsche Grammophon artist since 2009, Grammy winner for The American Project.
Yuji Ikegaya
Yuji Ikegaya (池谷裕二), born in 1970, is a Japanese neuroscientist and professor of pharmacology at the University of Tokyo known for work on hippocampal network dynamics and memory.
Yuji Itadori (虎杖悠仁)
Yuji Itadori (虎杖悠仁) is the protagonist of Gege Akutami's manga Jujutsu Kaisen: a 15-year-old who swallows Sukuna's finger, becomes the curse king's vessel, trains at Tokyo Jujutsu High under a suspended death sentence, and fights without an innate technique using Divergent Fist and Black Flash.
Yūji Kuroiwa
Yūji Kuroiwa is a Japanese politician who has served as Governor of Kanagawa since 2011, after decades at Fuji TV as a reporter, program director, and newscaster.
Yuji Matsuda
Yuji Matsuda (松田 祐司) is a Japanese experimental condensed matter physicist known for work on unconventional superconductors and quantum spin liquids, and professor at Kyoto University from 2004 to 2025.
Yūji Matsumoto
Yūji Matsumoto (松本裕治) is a Japanese computational linguist known for ChaSen, the standard tool for Japanese morphological analysis, and professor at NAIST from 1993 to 2020.
Yūji Matsuzawa
Yūji Matsuzawa (松澤佑次), born in 1941, is a Japanese endocrinologist at Osaka University who established the visceral fat syndrome concept and discovered the adipocyte hormone adiponectin in 1995.
Yuji Naka (中 裕司)
Yuji Naka (中 裕司), born 1965, is the Japanese programmer behind Sonic the Hedgehog and former head of Sega's Sonic Team, later founder of Prope and director of Balan Wonderworld; convicted of insider trading in 2023 with a suspended sentence.
Yuji Nishida (西田有志)
Yuji Nishida (西田有志, born 2000) is a Japanese left-handed opposite spiker, 186 cm, for Osaka Bluteon and Japan; 2019 World Cup Best Opposite, Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 seventh place, VNL 2026 top scorer.
Yuji Okumoto
Yuji Okumoto (born 1959, Los Angeles) is an American actor and producer, best known as villain Chozen Toguchi in The Karate Kid, Part II and Cobra Kai, and for producing The Paper Tigers (2020); he also runs the Seattle restaurant Kona Kitchen.
Yuji Sano
Yuji Sano is a Japanese geochemist known for helium isotope geochemistry and for inventing ion microprobe U-Pb dating of apatite, and director at Kochi University since 2021.
Yuji Takada
Yuji Takada (高田裕司, born 1954) is a Japanese freestyle wrestler, 1976 Olympic flyweight gold medalist and 1984 bronze medalist, four-time world champion, later coach and FILA Hall of Fame inductee; distinct from the 1984-born Deaflympics athlete of the same name.
Yuji Yamanashi
Yuji Yamanashi (山梨 裕司) is a Japanese molecular biologist and University of Tokyo professor whose Dok-7 research defined DOK7 congenital myasthenia and led to a gene therapy in development.
Yuji Zhao
Yuji Zhao is a semiconductor device engineer and professor of electrical engineering at Arizona State University known for gallium nitride power electronics and winning a PECASE award.
Yujie Sun
Yujie Sun (孙宇杰) is an energy electrochemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cincinnati, known for electrocatalytic water splitting, biomass valorization, and near-infrared photocatalysis.
Yujiro Hayashi
Yujiro Hayashi (林 雄二郎), born in 1962, is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Tohoku University, a leader in asymmetric organocatalysis known for the diphenylprolinol silyl ether catalyst.
Yujiro Ishihara
Yujiro Ishihara (石原裕次郎) was a Japanese actor and singer, a Nikkatsu star of more than 90 films and 500 songs who defined postwar Showa popular culture.
Yujiro Takahashi (高橋裕二郎)
Yujiro Takahashi (高橋裕二郎), born 1981 in Niigata, is a Japanese NJPW heavyweight wrestler, former No Limit tag partner of Tetsuya Naito, first Japanese Bullet Club member, and current House of Torture member known as the Tokyo Pimps.
Yujiulü Anagui
Yujiulü Anagui (郁久闾阿那瓌) was khagan of the Rouran Khaganate from 520 to 552, spanning the Northern Wei collapse and the Turkic revolt; defeated by Ashina Tumen, he died by suicide in 552.
Yujiulü Shelun
Yujiulü Shelun (郁久闾社仑, died 410) was a Rouran chieftain who founded the Rouran Khaganate in 402, becoming the first Rouran ruler to take the title of qaghan.
Yuju (최유나) (singer)
Yuju (유주, Choi Yu-na, born 1997, Goyang) is a South Korean singer-songwriter, main vocalist of GFRIEND (2015–2021), later a soloist with EPs REC., O, In Bloom, and file. 07 under Konnect and AT AREA.
Yuk L. Yung
Yuk L. Yung (Yuk Ling Yung) was a Caltech planetary scientist whose photochemistry models shaped missions from the Vikings to New Horizons, winning the 2015 Kuiper Prize.