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Yamanashi Prefecture (山梨県)
Yamanashi Prefecture (山梨県) is a landlocked Japanese prefecture near Tokyo, capital Kofu, 27 municipalities, 773,044 residents (Sept 2026), known for Mount Fuji views, fruit, wine, jewelry, and the planned 2027 maglev line.
Yamandú Orsi
Yamandú Orsi, born 1967, is a Uruguayan politician and former history teacher who became Uruguay's 43rd president in 2025, after serving as Intendant of Canelones from 2015 to 2024.
Yamane technique
The Yamane technique is a sutureless operation for fixing a three-piece intraocular lens in eyes lacking capsular support, introduced by Shin Yamane and colleagues in 2013.
Yamani (king of Ashdod)
Yamani, also known as Iamani, was a usurper who seized the kingship of Ashdod around 712/711 BC and led a revolt against Assyria's Sargon II.
Yamanote Line (山手線)
The Yamanote Line (山手線, Yamanote Sen) is a 34.5 km loop railway around central Tokyo operated by JR East, widely described as the city's most important train line.
Yamanoue no Okura
Yamanoue no Okura (山上憶良, c. 660–733) was a Japanese official and Nara-period poet, a major Man'yōshū poet known for poems on poverty, hunger, and his children.
Yamanoue Sōji
Yamanoue Sōji (山上宗二, 1544–1590) was a Japanese tea master and merchant of Sakai, a senior disciple of Sen no Rikyū, executed by Hideyoshi in 1590.
Yamasee
The Yamasee were an Indigenous people of the southeastern United States who emerged between Spanish Florida and Carolina, and led the 1715 Yamasee War that nearly destroyed South Carolina.
Yamasee War
The Yamasee War was a 1715 conflict between South Carolina and an alliance of Indian nations, including the Yamasees, Creeks, and Cherokees, that nearly destroyed the colony.
Yamashina Tokitsugu
Yamashina Tokitsugu (山科言継) was a Japanese court noble of the Sengoku period, born 1507 and died 1579, whose diary Tokitsugu kyō ki is a key source.
Yamashiro ikki
The Yamashiro ikki was a league of local warriors, village samurai, and peasants that expelled the rival Hatakeyama armies from southern Yamashiro Province in December 1485.
Yamashita's gold
Yamashita's gold, or Yamashita's treasure, is the unverified legend of WWII Japanese loot buried in Philippine tunnels, named for General Tomoyuki Yamashita; the documented Roxas v. Marcos case and historians' skepticism distinguish it.
Yamata no Orochi
Yamata no Orochi (八岐大蛇), also Yamata-no-Orochi, is the eight-headed, eight-tailed serpent deity of Izumo myth in the Kojiki (712) and Nihon Shoki (720), slain by Susanoo with eight vats of sake; the Kusanagi sword was found in its tail, and it is read as a flood, river, or iron myth.
Yamatai (邪馬臺国)
Yamatai (邪馬臺国, also written 邪馬壹国) is a third-century Japanese polity ruled by Queen Himiko, described in the Wei Zhi Woren Zhuan; its location, Kyushu versus Kinai, remains unresolved after 300 years of debate.
Yamato
Yamato (大和市, Yamato-shi) is a city in central Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan; 27.09 km², about 245,000 residents, second-highest density in the prefecture, cityhood 1959, named from Yamato village (1891).
Yamato (男たちの大和/YAMATO)
Yamato (男たちの大和/YAMATO) is a 2005 Toei war film by Jun'ya Satō, based on Jun Henmi's nonfiction, produced by Haruki Kadokawa, about the battleship Yamato's 1945 sinking, with a 600-million-yen full-scale set.
Yamato Basin
Yamato Basin, back-arc basin in the southeastern Sea of Japan (Japan Sea), one of three sub-basins with 12-16 km thick oceanic-type crust formed 16-21 Ma by back-arc extension behind the Japan arcs.
Yamato campaigns in Korea
Military expeditions by the Wa (Yamato) state of western Japan to the Korean Peninsula between the late 4th and early 5th centuries, recorded on the Gwanggaeto stele.
Yamato Court
The Yamato Court (大和朝廷) was the center of the archaic Japanese polity in Yamato, modern Nara Prefecture, headed by the Ōkimi and ended by the Taika Reform of 645.
Yamato Fujita
Yamato Fujita (藤田 倭) is a Japanese softball pitcher, born in 1990 in Sasebo, Nagasaki, who won gold with Japan at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Yamato Holdings
Yamato Holdings is a Japanese logistics holding company founded in 1919 and headquartered in Tokyo, best known as parent of Yamato Transport and its TA-Q-BIN parcel service.
Yamato Kochi (河内大和)
Yamato Kochi (河内大和) is a Japanese actor known for his Shakespeare work and founding G.GARAGE/// in 2013. He won the Newcomer Actor Award for the film Exit 8.
Yamato Kogyo
Yamato Kogyo is a Japanese steel manufacturer headquartered in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, founded in 1944, producing structural steel, ship components, and railway trackwork through scrap-based electric arc furnaces.
Yamato Monogatari
Yamato Monogatari (大和物語, Tales of Yamato) is a mid-Heian Japanese uta-monogatari of 173 sections built around about 300 waka poems, compiled around 951 and a major work of the genre.
Yamato people
Yamato people (大和民族, Yamato minzoku) are Japan's majority ethnic group, over 90% of the population, formed by admixture of indigenous Jomon hunter-gatherers, Yayoi farmers from continental Asia via the Korean Peninsula, and a later Kofun-period East Asian influx.
Yamato state formation
Yamato state formation (ヤマト政権の成立, ヤマト王権の形成) is the process by which a political order centered in the Nara basin consolidated control over the Japanese archipelago between the mid-3rd and late 7th century.
Yamato Takeru
Yamato Takeru (日本武尊) is a legendary prince of the Japanese imperial house, presented in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki as a son of Emperor Keikō who fought the Kumaso and Emishi before dying at Nobono.
Yamato-class battleship
The Yamato-class battleship (大和型戦艦) was a class of two Imperial Japanese Navy super-battleships, the largest ever built, displacing about 65,000 tons and mounting the largest naval guns ever fitted to a warship.
Yamato-damashii (大和魂)
Yamato-damashii (大和魂, also written 日本魂, synonymous with yamato-gokoro), the "Japanese spirit": originally Heian-era practical wisdom contrasted with Chinese learning (zae), first in the Tale of Genji; redefined by kokugaku and turned into a nationalist, militarist slogan from the bakumatsu through 1945.
Yamato-e
Yamato-e (大和絵) is a genre of traditional Japanese painting that flourished from the Heian period (794–1185), depicting Japanese literature, seasons, and court life in bright pigments.