Yamakawa (characters for "mountain" and "river") may refer to: * Yamakawa, Tokushima, town in Oe District, Tokushima *

Yamakawa, Fukuoka was a town located in Yamato District, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 5,522 and a density of 209.33 persons per km². The total area was 26.38 km². On January 29, 2007, Yamakawa, along with the ...

, town in Yamato District, Fukuoka * 8923 Yamakawa, asteroid

People with the surname

* Erika Yamakawa (born 1982), Japanese female talent * Yamakawa Futaba (1844–1909), Japanese educator *

Yamakawa Hiroshi Baron was a Bakumatsu period Aizu ''samurai'' who subsequently became a general in the early Meiji period Imperial Japanese Army, and a noted politician and educator. He was also one of the first persons (together with his brother Yamakawa Kenji ...

(1845–1898), samurai * Hitoshi Yamakawa (1880–1958), Japanese socialist * Junichi Yamakawa, the author of ''

Kuso Miso Technique is a Japanese one-shot manga written and illustrated by Junichi Yamakawa. It was first published in 1987 in , a manga supplement of the gay magazine . The short story is a famous meme on the Internet (especially on Japanese Internet forum ...

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Keiichi Yamakawa Keiichi is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese photographer *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese diplomat *, Japanese music director *, Japanese molecular biologist *, Japanese butterfly swimmer *, Ja ...

, Japanese producer of '' Romance of Darkness'' *

Kenichi Yamakawa is a Japanese author An author is the writer of a book, article, play, mostly written work. A broader definition of the word "author" states: "''An author is "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship de ...

(born 1953), Japanese author and rock musician *

Yamakawa Kenjirō was a Japanese samurai, politician, physicist, academic administrator, and author of several histories of the Boshin War. He served as president of Tokyo Imperial University, Kyushu Imperial University, and Kyoto Imperial University. He also s ...

(1854–1931), Japanese physicist, university president, and author *

Maki Yamakawa Maki may refer to: People *Mäki, a Finnish surname (includes a list of people with the name) *Maki (name), a Japanese given name and surname (includes a list of people with the name) Places *Maki, Ravar, Kerman Province, Iran *Maki, Rigan, Ke ...

, Japanese fashion model and radio personality, director of ''

Kekko Kamen is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai. It was serialized in ''Monthly Shōnen Jump'' from September 1974 to February 1978, with the chapters collected into five ''tankōbon'' volumes by Shueisha. It f ...

'' *, Japanese actress * Yutaka Yamakawa, Japanese

Enka is a Japanese music genre considered to resemble traditional Japanese music stylistically. Modern ''enka'', however, is a relatively recent musical form, which adopts a more traditional musical style in its vocalism than '' ryūkōka'' music, ...

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