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Yama (singer)

yama is an anonymous masked Japanese solo singer who debuted in April 2020 with "Haru wo Tsugeru" and became known for anime themes including SPY×FAMILY's "Shikisai" and Gundam: The Witch from Mercury's "slash".

Yama (यम) (Hinduism)

Yama (यम), also called Yamraj or Dharmaraja, is the Hindu god of death and judge of the dead, the first mortal to die in Vedic myth, twin of Yami, son of Vivasvat, teacher in the Katha Upanishad, and counterpart of the Iranian Yima.

Yama Buddha (अनिल अधिकारी)

Yama Buddha (अनिल अधिकारी) was a Nepalese rapper and songwriter who was a central figure in NepHop. He died in his London apartment in 2017.

Yama Jigoku Zoo

山地獄 (Yama Jigoku, Mountain Hell zoo) was a small hot-spring-heated zoo in Beppu, Oita, next to Umi Jigoku; it kept capybara, goats, peacocks, and formerly hippos, left the Beppu Jigoku Association, and has permanently closed.

Yama Zatdaw

Yama Zatdaw (ရာမဇာတ်တော်) is the Burmese version of the Ramayana, treated as a Jataka story of Theravada Buddhism and regarded as Myanmar's unofficial national epic, with Rama known as Yama and Sita as Thida.

Sep 29, 2026

Yamabe flow

The Yamabe flow is a geometric evolution equation, proposed by Richard Hamilton, that deforms a Riemannian metric within its conformal class toward constant scalar curvature.

Oct 15, 2026

Yamabe problem

The Yamabe problem asks whether every closed Riemannian manifold of dimension at least 3 admits a metric of constant scalar curvature; it was solved affirmatively by 1984.

Yamada Akiyoshi

Yamada Akiyoshi (山田顕義, 1844–1892) was a Japanese army officer and statesman who served as Japan's first Minister of Justice and founded the Japan Law School, predecessor of Nihon University.

Sep 24, 2026

Yamada Nagamasa

Yamada Nagamasa (山田長政) was a Japanese merchant and military commander who led the Japanese volunteer corps in Siam's Ayutthaya kingdom, became governor of Ligor in 1629, and died by poisoning in 1630.

Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches (山田くんと7人の魔女)

Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches (山田くんと7人の魔女), also romanized Yamada-kun to 7-nin no Majo, is Miki Yoshikawa's 2012-2017 Weekly Shonen Magazine manga, 28 volumes, about Ryu Yamada and Urara Shiraishi swapping bodies by kiss among seven kiss-powered witches, adapted as a 2013 Fuji TV drama and a 2015 LIDENFILMS anime.

Yamadonga

Yamadonga (యమదొంగ), also known as Yama Donga, is a 2007 Telugu fantasy action comedy directed by S. S. Rajamouli, starring N. T. Rama Rao Jr. as a thief who battles Yama, the god of death; it was the highest-grossing Telugu film of 2007.

Sep 24, 2026

Yamaga Sokō

Yamaga Sokō (山鹿素行, 1622–1685) was a Japanese Confucian and military scholar of the early Edo period who formulated the warrior ethic shidō and was exiled in 1666 for criticizing Zhu Xi Neo-Confucianism.

Yamagata

Yamagata Prefecture (山形県), a Tohoku prefecture on the Sea of Japan, capital Yamagata City; area 9,323.15 km², population about 1.01 million, 35 municipalities, four regions, and Japan's top cherry producer.

Sep 24, 2026

Yamagata Aritomo

Yamagata Aritomo (山県有朋) was a Japanese army officer and statesman who built the modern Imperial Japanese Army and served twice as prime minister, from 1889 to 1891 and 1898 to 1900.

Yamagata Bantō

Yamagata Bantō (山片蟠桃, 1748–1821) was a Japanese merchant and Confucian scholar of Osaka who wrote Yume no shiro, defending heliocentrism and denying gods and ghosts.

Yamagata Shinkansen (山形新幹線)

The Yamagata Shinkansen (山形新幹線) is a Japanese rail service carrying JR East's Tsubasa limited express trains from Tokyo to Yamagata and Shinjo, opened in 1992.

Yamagata, Yamagata

Yamagata (山形市) is the capital and largest city of Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, in the southeastern Yamagata Basin; about 234,000 residents, 381.58 km², city since 1889, core city since 2019, UNESCO City of Film, and site of Japan's 40.8 °C record set in 1933.

Oct 10, 2026

Yamagiwa Katsusaburō

Yamagiwa Katsusaburō (山極勝三郎) was a Japanese pathologist at Tokyo Imperial University who produced the first experimentally induced cancer by painting coal tar on rabbits' ears in 1915.

Yamagoshi Amida

Yamagoshi Amida (山越阿弥陀図) is a genre of Japanese Buddhist painting showing Amida Buddha rising from behind a mountain to welcome the dying to the Pure Land.

Yamaguchi (city)

Yamaguchi (山口市) is the capital of Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Honshu, Japan. Founded by the Ouchi clan in the 14th century, the "Kyoto of the West" is known for Rurikoji's National Treasure pagoda, Yuda Onsen, and the Gion Festival.

Yamaguchi (district)

Yamaguchi (山口県, Yamaguchi-ken), Japan's westernmost Honshu prefecture in the Chugoku region; capital Yamaguchi City, 19 municipalities, 1.26 million people, heavy industry on the Seto Inland Sea, birthplace of eight prime ministers.

Yamaguchi esterification

The Yamaguchi esterification is an organic reaction that couples a carboxylic acid with an alcohol to form an ester, first reported by Masaru Yamaguchi in 1979.

Yamaguchi-gumi (山口組)

Yamaguchi-gumi (山口組), Japan's largest yakuza syndicate, founded 1915 in Kobe by Yamaguchi Harukichi as a dock labor-broking group; designated bōryokudan since 1992, split in 2015 forming the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi, with about 3,100 members at end-2025.

Yamaha Corporation (ヤマハ株式会社)

Yamaha Corporation (ヤマハ株式会社), formerly Nippon Gakki, is a Japanese musical instrument and audio equipment maker founded in Hamamatsu in 1887 by Torakusu Yamaha; distinct from Yamaha Motor (spun off 1955), listed as TSE 7951.

Yamaha DX7

Yamaha DX7, DX7 II successor, 1983 digital FM synthesizer with six operators, 32 algorithms, 16-voice polyphony, E.PIANO 1 preset on ~60% of 1986 US chart songs, about 160,000 built.

Yamaha FJR1300

The Yamaha FJR1300 is a Yamaha sport touring motorcycle with a 1,298 cc liquid-cooled inline four-cylinder engine, debuted in 2000 and sold chiefly in Europe from 2001.

Yamaha FZ1

The Yamaha FZ1, also sold as the FZ1 Fazer, is a 1,000 cc naked sport motorcycle built by Yamaha from 2006 to 2015 around a detuned YZF-R1 engine.

Yamaha FZ6

The Yamaha FZ6, also known as the FZ6 Fazer, is a 600 cc middleweight motorcycle sold in Europe from 2003 as half-faired Fazer and naked versions, with a YZF-R6-derived engine.

Yamaha Motor Company

Yamaha Motor Company, also known as Yamaha Motor Corporation, is a Japanese manufacturer of motorcycles and marine products founded in 1955 and headquartered in Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan.