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Yasuharu Suematsu
Yasuharu Suematsu (末松 安晴, born 1932) is a Japanese electrical engineer at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, later its president, whose dynamic single-mode laser made long-distance optical fiber communication practical.
Yasuhiko Arakawa
Yasuhiko Arakawa (荒川 泰彦) is a Japanese photonics researcher, Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo, known for proposing the quantum dot in 1982 and winning the 2017 Japan Academy Prize.
Yasuhiko Asahina
Yasuhiko Asahina (朝比奈泰彦, 1881–1975) was a Japanese pharmacologist and lichenologist, Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo, who started lichen chemotaxonomy by linking lichen identity to chemistry.
YASUHIRO
YASUHIRO (康寛) is a Japanese Vocaloid producer, lyricist, and composer affiliated with the agency TOKYO LOGIC, who debuted in 2013 and is known for the million-view song "Nee, Dorodoro-san".
Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Yasuhiro Ishimoto (石元泰博, 1921–2012) was a Japanese-American photographer trained at Chicago's Institute of Design, the New Bauhaus, whose images of Chicago, Tokyo, and Katsura Imperial Villa shaped postwar Japanese photography.
Yasuhiro Matsumura
Yasuhiro Matsumura (松村保広), born in 1955, is a Japanese oncologist who co-discovered the enhanced permeability and retention effect and led developmental therapeutics at Japan's National Cancer Center.
Yasuhiro Nakasone (中曽根 康弘)
Yasuhiro Nakasone (中曽根 康弘, 1918–2019), Japanese LDP prime minister 1982–1987 (1,806 days), allied with Reagan as 'Ron and Yasu', privatized JNR, NTT, and tobacco, broke the 1%-of-GNP defense cap, and won 304 seats in 1986.
Yasuhiro Yamashita
Yasuhiro Yamashita (山下泰裕), Japanese judoka born 1957, 1984 Los Angeles Olympic open-class gold medalist, Guinness record 203 consecutive wins 1977–1985, later JOC president and IOC member.
Yasuhisa Hara (原 泰久)
Yasuhisa Hara (原泰久, born 1975, Kiyama, Saga Prefecture) is a Japanese manga artist and former systems engineer, creator of the historical manga Kingdom (2006, Weekly Young Jump), based on the Shiji, with over 110 million copies sold and the 2013 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.
Yasuhisa Matsui
Yasuhisa Matsui (松居靖久) is a Japanese developmental biologist who studies germ cells and epigenetics, known for deriving embryonic stem cells from mouse primordial germ cells in 1992.
Yasuhito Endō (遠藤 保仁)
Yasuhito Endō (遠藤 保仁), born 1980, Japanese central midfielder; Japan's most capped player with 152 caps and 15 goals; Gamba Osaka legend, 2008 AFC Champions League and 2014 treble winner; retired 2023, now Gamba coach.
Yasui Sōtarō
Yasui Sōtarō (安井曾太郎, 1888–1955) was a Japanese painter of yōga, Western-style oil painting, whose portrait manner, the Yasui style, dominated the early Shōwa era with Umehara Ryūzaburō.
Yasuji Miyazaki
Yasuji Miyazaki (宮崎 康二), Japanese swimmer, 1932 Los Angeles Olympic champion in the 100 m freestyle at 15 years 311 days and in the 4x200 m relay with a world record 8:58.4.
Yasujiro Murata
Yasujiro Murata (村田 靖次郎) is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Kyoto University known for trapping atoms and molecules inside fullerenes by molecular surgery.
Yasujirō Ozu
Yasujirō Ozu (小津安二郎, 1903–1963), Japanese film director at Shochiku, maker of 54 films including Tokyo Story and Late Spring; known for tatami-height static camera, pillow shots, and family dissolution dramas.
Yasukane Matsumoto (Raksul)
Yasukane Matsumoto (松本恭攝), born 1984, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Raksul in 2009, led it as CEO until 2023, and now serves as its Chairman.
Yasuke
Yasuke was an African man, likely a bodyguard of the Jesuit Alessandro Valignano, who joined Oda Nobunaga's service in 1581 and was last recorded in 1582.
Yasuke (弥助) (TV series)
Yasuke (YASUKE －ヤスケ－) is a 2021 six-episode Netflix anime by LeSean Thomas and studio MAPPA, starring LaKeith Stanfield with a Flying Lotus score, reimagining the historical African retainer of Oda Nobunaga in a fantasy Sengoku Japan with mechs and magic.
Yasuki Endo
Yasuki Endo (远藤 泰树) is a Japanese microwave spectroscopist, Chair Professor at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan since 2021, known for spectra of short-lived free radicals.
Yasuko Namba (難波 康子)
Yasuko Namba (難波 康子) was a Japanese mountaineer and Federal Express accountant who completed the Seven Summits and died descending Everest in the storm of May 1996.
Yasuko Rikihisa
Yasuko Rikihisa is an Ohio State University microbiologist known for research on Ehrlichia and Anaplasma bacteria, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2013.
Yasukuni Shrine (靖国神社)
Yasukuni Shrine (Yasukuni Jinja), originally Tokyo Shokonsha, is a Shinto shrine in central Tokyo founded by Emperor Meiji in 1869 that commemorates over 2,466,000 Japanese war dead.
Yasumasa Ishida
Yasumasa Ishida (石田 靖雅) is a Japanese immunologist at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology who discovered and named the PD-1 gene in 1991.
Yasumitsu Shigeta
Yasumitsu Shigeta (重田康光, born 1965) is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Hikari Tsushin in 1988, built it into a mobile-phone retail chain, and remains its chairman.
Yasunari Kawabata (川端康成)
Yasunari Kawabata (川端康成, 1899–1972), Japanese novelist, first Japanese Nobel Literature laureate (1968), New Sensation school founder, author of Snow Country, The Sound of the Mountain, and The Old Capital; died by gas suicide in 1972.
Yasunobu Nakamura
Yasunobu Nakamura (中村 泰信) is a Japanese physicist who created the first superconducting qubit at NEC in 1999 and directs the RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing.
Yasunori Hayashi
Yasunori Hayashi (林 康紀), born in 1965, is a Japanese neuroscientist and professor of systems neuropharmacology at Kyoto University, known for work on AMPA receptor trafficking in synaptic plasticity and memory.
Yasunori Machida
Yasunori Machida (町田泰則), born 1948 in Gunma, Japan, is a Japanese plant molecular biologist at Nagoya University known for defining the kinase pathway that drives cell-plate formation in plant cell division.
Yasunori Mitsuda (光田康典)
Yasunori Mitsuda (光田康典), born 1972 in Shunan, Japan, is a composer and founder of Procyon Studio, known for Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Xenogears, Xenosaga Episode I, and the Xenoblade series soundtracks.
Yasunori Miyabe
Yasunori Miyabe (宮部保範), born 1966 in Tokyo, is a Japanese speed skater who competed in the 500 m and 1,000 m at the 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympics and set world records in the 1,000 m and sprint combination in 1994.