During the landing operations on August 7 and August 8, Japanese naval aircraft based at Rabaul, under the command of Sadayoshi Yamada, attacked the Allied amphibious forces several times, setting afire the transport USS George F. Elliot ( which sank two days later ) and heavily damaging the destroyer.

* 1990s: With the Yamada and Kojima household chain stores appearing throughout the suburban outskirts of Tokyo, the sale of consumer durables at Akihabara was greatly reduced, but the sale of computer goods increased in equal measure.

It is formally named Shinaga no Yamada no misasagi.

Yoji Yamada introduced the commercially successful Tora-San series, while also directing other films, notably the popular The Yellow Handkerchief, which won the first Japan Academy Prize for Best Film in 1978.

Yoji Yamada, director of the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series, made a trilogy of acclaimed revisionist samurai films, 2002's Twilight Samurai, followed by The Hidden Blade in 2004 and Love and Honor in 2006.

However in terms of modern competition, it was during the 1950s that a Japanese karateka named Tatsuo Yamada first established an outline of a new sport that combined karate and muay thai.

Tatsuo Yamada, who established " Nihon Kempo Karate-do ", was interested in Muay Thai because he wanted to perform karate matches with full-contact rules since practitioners are not allowed to hit each other directly in karate matches.

It is still unknown whether Thai fighters were invited by Yamada, but it is clear that Yamada was the only karateka who was really interested in Muay Thai.

Yamada invited a Thai fighter who was the champion of Muay Thai ( and formerly his son Kan Yamada's sparring partner ), and started studying Muay Thai.

The Thai fighter's photo was on the magazine " The Primer of Nihon Kempo Karate-do, the first number " which was published by Yamada.

Tatsu Yamada died in 1967, but his dojo changed its name to Suginami Gym, and kept sending kickboxers off to support kickboxing.

* February 5 – Isuzu Yamada, Japanese actress ( d. 2012 )

* June 9 – Kosaku Yamada, Japanese composer and conductor ( d. 1965 )

** Yamada Arinobu, Japanese nobleman ( b. 1544 )

** Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese adventurer ( d. 1630 )

** Yamada Arinaga, Japanese retainer of the Shimazu clan ( d. 1668 )

The P-systems of Yamada are based upon the notion of regular *- semigroup as defined by Nordahl and Scheiblich.

In the book Bugei Ryuha Daijiten by Watatani Kiyoshi and Yamada Tadashi, Hayashizaki Jinsuke ( Minamoto no ) Shigenobu is credited with establishing the influence and popularity of the art early in the 16th century, that is today widely practised as iaido.

* Naoko Yamada, played by Yukie Nakama, the main character of the Japanese drama Trick.

* Yamada, Munemutsu.

A documentary produced by Gayle K. Yamada, Maxine Hong Kingston: Talking Story, was released in 1990.

* Yamada Shôji, " The Myth of Zen in the Art of Archery.

* Yamada Nagamasa of Japan ( 1590 – 1630 ), adventurer, pirate, and military commander

* Science View-hosted by various Science Watcher, Rena Yamada & Michelle Nozomi Yamamoto ; gives the world a window onto science and technology in Japan.

He was born in Yamada, Iwate and died at the International Medical Center of Japan, in Tokyo of pneumonia.

* Kazuo Yamada with the New Japan Philharmonic, 1986

* The Stingiest Man in Town ( 1978, Tom Bosley )-Animated by Topcraft, this special was also broadcast in Japan in 1978 under the title Machi Ichiban no Kechinbo ( The Number One Miser of the City ), directed by Katsuhisa Yamada.

Shamrock, now an enormous star in Japan, defeated world kickboxing champion and future UFC Heavyweight Champion Maurice Smith and Alex Cook in the Opening Round of the 16 man King of Pancrase Tournament and Masakatsu Funaki and Manabu Yamada in the Second Round to become the first King of Pancrase before crowds of 11, 000 fans both nights at Tokyo ’ s Sumo Hall in December 1994.

is a former town that used to be located in the now dissolved Yamada District, Gunma, Japan.

** Round of 32: Defeated Shizuka Yamamoto and Seiko Yamada of Japan ( 15-7, 15-9 )

For many historians such as Akira Fujiwara, Akira Yamada, Peter Wetzler, Herbert Bix and John Dower, the work done by Douglas MacArthur and SCAP during the first months of the occupation of Japan to exonerate Hirohito and all the imperial family from criminal prosecutions in the Tokyo tribunal was the predominant factor in the campaign to diminish in retrospect the role played by the emperor during the war.

* 1634-Travel of Yamada Yahei ( 山田弥兵衛 ) from Japan to Indo-China and Siam.

Dr. Yamada also relays that the largest crop of this mushroom occurred following the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 and the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011.

Riona Hazuki ( 葉月里緒奈 Hazuki Riona ), born Mai Yamada ( 山田麻衣 Yamada Mai, born on July 11, 1975 in Tokyo, Japan ) is a Japanese actress.

He also worked in Japan, producing a Japanese movie with Robbie Robertson entitled Jenifa, starring Jennifer Holmes and Takayuki Yamada, which premiered in Tokyo in May, 2004.

Yamada attracted attention outside of Japan through his illustrations of Fuyumi Ono's long-running The Twelve Kingdoms light novel series.

: 1989: Etai Yamada, Japan

Originally from Tokyo, Japan, Yamada became interested in aikido through his father's cousin, Tadashi Abe, who trained at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo and was a friend of Koichi Tohei.

In those days there was no other aikido teacher ( with the exception of the original NY Aikikai founder Yasuo Ohara ) from Japan on the east coast of the US, and Yamada would travel weekly to Boston, with frequent trips to Philadelphia and points south as well.

In 1988 Yamada invited Seiichi Sugano to join the dojo, making it one of the few dojo outside of Japan with two 8th dan shihan in residence.

The manga was authored by Masaki Segawa and published in Japan in 2003 and 2004, based on the novel The Kouga Ninja Scrolls by Futaro Yamada published in 1958.