Yoshida Shigeru was a Japanese political leader who served several terms as prime minister of Japan during most of the critical transition period after World War II, when Allied troops occupied the country and Japan was attempting to build new democratic institutions. After graduating in law from

Yoshida Shintō, school of Shintō that upheld Shintō as a basic faith while teaching its unity with Buddhism and Confucianism. Yoshida Shintō took its name from its founder, Yoshida Kanetomo (1435–1511), who systematized teaching that had been transmitted by generations of the Yoshida family.

Yoshida Shōin was a Japanese teacher of military tactics in the domain of Chōshū. He studied “Dutch learning” (European studies) in Nagasaki and Edo and was deeply influenced by the pro-emperor thinkers in the domain of Mito. His radical pro-emperor stance influenced young samurai in Chōshū to

Yoshida Tetsurō was a Japanese architect who spread knowledge of Japan’s architecture to the West and at the same time introduced Western motifs in his own works. While on a visit to Europe during 1931–32, Yoshida met the German architects Hugo Häring and Ludwig Hilberseimer. At their urging, he

Roger Brown: Early influences: …studied with painter and collagist Ray Yoshida and art historian Whitney Halstead, both of whom encouraged him to look to non-Western and nontraditional artists and art forms for inspiration. Yoshida took Brown and other students to the Maxwell Street Market, a flea market on Chicago’s Near West Side, where Brown…

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Yoshikawa Eiji was a Japanese novelist who achieved the first rank among 20th-century writers both for his popularized versions of classical Japanese literature and for his own original novels. Because of his father’s failure in business, Yoshikawa received only a primary-school education, and his

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Shintō: Neo-Confucian Shintō: Yoshikawa Koretaru (1616–94) and Yamazaki Ansai (1619–82) were two representative scholars of Confucian Shintō. They added neo-Confucian interpretations to the traditional theories handed down from Watarai Shintō, and each established a new school. The taiji (Supreme Ultimate) concept of neo-Confucianism was regarded as identical with…

Your Party: …established in August 2009 by Watanabe Yoshimi—formerly of the Liberal-Democratic Party (LDP), who had resigned from the LDP early that year over policy disagreements with the prime minister, Asō Tarō—and several other members, most of whom had also left the LDP. In Your Party’s first contested election—that for the House…

Banana Yoshimoto is a Japanese author who achieved worldwide popularity writing stories and novels with slight action and unusual characters. Yoshimoto was reared in a much freer environment than that of most Japanese children. Her father, Takaaki (whose pen name was “Ryūmei”), was an intellectual,

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Kawatake Mokuami was a versatile and prolific Japanese dramatist, the last great Kabuki playwright of the Tokugawa period (1603–1867). Growing up in Edo, Kawatake became a pupil of the Kabuki playwright Tsuruya Namboku V and wrote many kinds of plays during a long apprenticeship. He became the

Puffy AmiYumi: …18, 1973, Tokyo, Japan) and Yumi Yoshimura (b. January 30, 1975, Osaka, Japan)—captured their audiences through their well-blended voices, their intelligent lyrics and novel musical arrangements, and their vibrant, youthful stage presence.

seppuku: …death by assassinating the daimyo Kira Yoshinaka (a retainer of the shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi), whom they held responsible for Asano’s murder. Afterward the shogun ordered all the participating samurai to commit seppuku. The story soon became the basis of the popular and enduring Kabuki drama Chūshingura, and it later was…

Yoshino Akira is a Japanese chemist who won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work in developing lithium-ion batteries. He shared the prize with American physicist John B. Goodenough and British-born American chemist M. Stanley Whittingham. Yoshino received bachelor’s (1970) and master’s

Yoshino Sakuzō was a Japanese Christian politician and educator who was a leader in the movement to further democracy in Japan in the early part of the 20th century. Yoshino converted to Christianity while still in secondary school, and he soon became prominent in the Christian Socialist movement

Japanese literature: Kamakura period (1192–1333): …by the Soga brothers, and Gikeiki (“Chronicle of Gikei”; Eng. trans. Yoshitsune), describing the life of the warrior Minamoto Yoshitsune. Though inartistically composed, these portraits of resourceful and daring heroes caught the imaginations of the Japanese, and their exploits are still prominent on the Kabuki stage.

Paris 1924 Olympic Games: Andrew (“Boy”) Charlton of Australia, Yoshiyuki Tsuruta of Japan, and Arne Borg of Sweden. The star of the competition, however, was American Johnny Weissmuller, who won three gold medals as well as a bronze medal as a member of the water polo team. See also Sidebar: Harold Abrahams and Eric…

Yoshkar-Ola, city and capital of Mari El republic, western Russia, on the Malaya (little) Kokshaga River. Yoshkar-Ola was founded in 1578, and in 1584 the fortress of Tsaryovokokshaysk was built there by Tsar Boris Godunov. Its remoteness from lines of communication prevented any development. In

Captain John Yossarian, fictional character, an American bombardier of the 256th Squadron who is stationed on a Mediterranean island during World War II, in Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22

Maxie Anderson: Ed Yost, balloonist and balloon builder, whose transatlantic flight had failed in 1958, built the Double Eagle, a helium balloon, for them and trained them to fly it. They launched the balloon near Marshfield, Mass., on Sept. 9, 1977, but had to set down off…

Fielding Yost was an American collegiate football coach who was best known for his tenure at the University of Michigan (1901–23, 1925–26), where he also served as athletic director (1921–41). He became famous for his “point-a-minute” teams of 1901–05, which scored an average of 49.5 points per

Fielding Yost was an American collegiate football coach who was best known for his tenure at the University of Michigan (1901–23, 1925–26), where he also served as athletic director (1921–41). He became famous for his “point-a-minute” teams of 1901–05, which scored an average of 49.5 points per

Maxie Anderson: Ed Yost, balloonist and balloon builder, whose transatlantic flight had failed in 1958, built the Double Eagle, a helium balloon, for them and trained them to fly it. They launched the balloon near Marshfield, Mass., on Sept. 9, 1977, but had to set down off…

Yeosu, city, South Jeolla do (province), on Yeosu Peninsula, extreme southern South Korea. Such large islands as Namhae, Dolsan, and Geumo protect its natural port. The Korean navy headquarters were located there during the Joseon (Yi) dynasty (1392–1910) before being moved to Tongyeong. With

Yeosu-Suncheon Rebellion, (1948) left-wing military and civilian protest against the nascent South Korean government in southern Korea during the post-World War II period. In mid-October 1948, when the Korean Peninsula was still coping with its recent division into the two separate political

Northern Territory: The arts: Yothu Yindi, an Aboriginal band from the territory’s northeastern coast, is recognized as a pioneer of Australian-based world music that mixes indigenous music and international popular styles to raise awareness of traditions and issues affecting indigenous peoples.

Taoism: Cosmology: …Nothing (wu) and Something (you), are interdependent and “grow out of one another.”

you, type of Chinese bronze container for wine that resembled a bucket with a swing handle and a knobbed lid. It was produced during the Shang (18th–12th century bc) and early Zhou (1111–c. 900 bc) periods. Related to the hu in profile, the you consisted of a base, usually oval in section, and a

Jenna Ortega: Stuck in the Middle and You: …of the hit Netflix show You. She followed that up with a string of slasher films that include The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020), Scream (2022), Studio 666 (2022), X (2022), American Carnage (2022), and Scream VI (2023). For her role as Tara Carpenter in Scream, Ortega won most frightened performance…

Kristen Bell: Early films, TV after Veronica Mars, and personal life: …to the Greek (2010), and You Again (2010). Bell also guest starred on the TV series Party Down in 2009 and 2010. Between screen roles, she began dating actor Dax Shepard; they married in 2013 and have two daughters, Lincoln Bell Shepard (born 2013) and Delta Bell Shepard (born 2014).

Alain Resnais: …n’avez encore rien vu (2012; You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet) and Aimer, boire et chanter (2014; Life of Riley), were also praised by critics.

the Mills Brothers: Their later hits included “You Always Hurt the One You Love” (1944), “Glow Worm” (1952), and “Opus One” (1952).

Mavis Staples: Solo career: In 2010 Staples released You Are Not Alone, a collection of gospel standards and new songs that was produced by Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy. It was a critical success, and the following year Staples’s long Grammy drought finally came to an end when You Are Not Alone was awarded…

Janet Frame: …Stories and Sketches (1963), and You Are Now Entering the Human Heart (1983). Her poetry was collected in The Pocket Mirror (1967) and The Goose Bath (2006).

Billy Preston: Recording with the Beatles and solo success: He also co-wrote “You Are So Beautiful,” a gigantic hit for Joe Cocker. In 1975 Preston and singer-songwriter Janis Ian were the first musical guests selected to appear on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live.

Idina Menzel: Frozen and other film performances: …Adam Sandler in the film You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.

the Smiths: Solo careers and controversies: …the politics and pathos of You Are the Quarry (2004), the solid craftsmanship of Ringleader of the Tormentors (2006), and the self-assuredness of Years of Refusal (2009). His subsequent albums, including Low in High School (2017), I Am Not a Dog on a Chain (2020), and Make-Up Is a Lie…

Stevie Wonder: …songs, among them “Superstition,” “You Are the Sunshine of My Life,” “Higher Ground,” “Living for the City,” “Don’t You Worry ’Bout a Thing,” “Boogie On Reggae Woman,” “I Wish,” and “Sir Duke.”

Roni Horn: Art inspired by Iceland: You Are the Weather and Library of Water: One example is Horn’s well-known You Are the Weather (1994–95) series. It consists of 100 close-up photographs of a woman’s face, documenting the subtle changes in the subject’s appearance as she reacts to different types of weather. Another Iceland-based work (located in a former library in the small town of…

Taylor Swift: Debut album and Fearless: Singles such as “You Belong with Me” and “Love Story” were popular in the digital market as well, the latter accounting for more than four million paid downloads.

James Hong: Career: …of Groucho Marx’s game show You Bet Your Life with impressions of actors James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, Peter Lorre, and Marx himself. Hong’s first film role came that same year with an uncredited part in the war drama Dragonfly Squadron. He dealt with racism and typecasting throughout much of his…

If you have several debts from different places, you might be going nuts trying to keep up with all the various payments and interest rates. Debt consolidation can help you combine your debts into more manageable chunks. With fewer payments—and potentially lower interest rates—you might be able to

Matthew Broderick: The Producers and roles from the late 1990s and early 2000s: …2000s Broderick also appeared in You Can Count on Me (2000), The Stepford Wives (2004), and Strangers with Candy (2005).

Everyone knows that “scary” date of April 15—the day taxes are due each year. But you may have heard of a friend or neighbor who “filed an extension,” implying they got a bunch of extra time. Did they? And should you? Here’s a look at the pros and cons of filing tax extensions, and the conditions

Joe Cocker: …popular Randy Newman song “You Can Leave Your Hat On.”

Bruce Beaver: …The Hot Spring (1965) and You Can’t Come Back (1966).

Nickelodeon: …eventually included the sketch-comedy show You Can’t Do That on Television. The Canadian-produced series, which had first aired on a local station in Ottawa, is notable for originating the channel’s iconic and frequent use of green slime in its early years.

Yi Munyŏl: …kohyang e kaji mot’ari (1980; You Can’t Go Home Again), Yi examines one aspect of hometown life, a spiritual space that has vanished beyond recall. The stories evoke nostalgia, fury, or pained amusement.

You Can’t Go Home Again, novel by Thomas Wolfe, published posthumously in 1940 after heavy editing by Edward Aswell. This novel, like Wolfe’s other works, is largely autobiographical, reflecting details of his life in the 1930s. As the sequel to The Web and the Rock (1939), You Can’t Go Home Again

Motown: 1960s roster of hitmakers and mainstream appeal: …a Symphony” (all 1965), and “You Can’t Hurry Love” (1966). Not only were they the second most successful singing group of the decade—surpassed only by the Beatles—but they remain one of the most successful female singing groups of all time. The group’s glamorous lead singer, Diana Ross, went on to…

George Seldes: In You Can’t Print That (1928) he criticized censorship and strictures on journalists, a continuing theme in his career. He reported on the rise of fascism in Italy and Spain in the 1930s, and he and his wife published In Fact, a journal devoted to press…

Frank Capra: The golden period of Frank Capra: …two months, the frenetic comedy You Can’t Take It with You (1938) was a dramatic about-face for Capra after the weighty Lost Horizon. George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, a hit on Broadway, was adapted for the screen by Riskin. Arthur, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, and Edward…

Frank Capra: The golden period of Frank Capra: … and Moss Hart’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, a hit on Broadway, was adapted for the screen by Riskin. Arthur, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, and Edward Arnold starred in this madcap portrait of an extremely unconventional family. While some critics found the film merely workmanlike in its professional polish, others were convinced…

Yudi, in Chinese religion, the most revered and popular of Chinese Daoist deities. In the official Daoist pantheon, he is an impassive sage-deity, but he is popularly viewed as a celestial sovereign who guides human affairs and rules an enormous heavenly bureaucracy analogous to the Chinese Empire.

the Lovin’ Spoonful: …included gentle ruminations on romance—“You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice” (1965), “Daydream” (1966), and “Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?” (1966)—and the uncharacteristically boisterous “Summer in the City” (1966). Chief songwriter Sebastian (lead vocals, guitar, harmonica, and Autoharp) and Yanovsky (lead guitar) came from a…

Dusty Springfield: …though, was the ballad “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me” (1966), which topped the British singles chart and reached number four in the United States.

Sherman Alexie: Literary career: …2017 Alexie released the memoir You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, which chronicles his complicated relationship with his mother. The book was well received, and in February 2018 it was named the winner of the American Library Association’s Carnegie Medal for nonfiction. Shortly thereafter, however, several women made…

Barry Levinson: …directed the HBO television movies You Don’t Know Jack (2010), a comedy-drama about Jack Kevorkian (Al Pacino), a doctor who supported physician-assisted suicide; The Wizard of Lies (2017), about Bernie Madoff (Robert De Niro), who operated the largest Ponzi scheme in history; and

Adam Sandler: Early film career: Happy Gilmore, The Wedding Singer, and Punch-Drunk Love: …returned to lighter fare with You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, about an Israeli military operative who moves to New York City to become a hairdresser.

Charles Bukowski: …All the Time (1984), and You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense (1986). Though he had begun his career as one of the ultimate “cult authors,” his work was so popular and influential that by the time of his death he was one of the best-known…

Margaret Bourke-White: …collaborated on three illustrated books: You Have Seen Their Faces (1937), about Southern sharecroppers; North of the Danube (1939), about life in Czechoslovakia before the Nazi takeover; and Say, Is This the U.S.A. (1941), about the industrialization of the United States.

David Cross: Personal life: …Tamblyn appeared in Nicole Holofcener’s You Hurt My Feelings (2023), playing a couple seeking counseling.

Ben Kingsley: Impactful roles: Schindler’s List and Sexy Beast: …the films Oliver Twist (2005), You Kill Me (2007), and Transsiberian (2008). He subsequently took supporting roles in the Martin Scorsese films Shutter Island (2010) and Hugo (2011), in the latter portraying French film pioneer Georges Méliès.

baseball: Baseball and the arts: …20th century was Ring Lardner’s You Know Me Al, a collection of stories featuring the character Jack Keefe that first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and was later published in book form in 1916. By shifting the baseball yarn from the exploits of the Great American Hero to the…

Pat Boone: Personal life: …her 1977 number-one hit “You Light Up My Life.”

John Edgar Wideman: Books and teaching career: (1992), American Histories (2018), and You Made Me Love You: Selected Stories, 1981–2018 (2021). Among his other works are the memoirs Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society (1994; a finalist for a National Book Award) and Hoop Roots: Basketball, Race, and Love (2001) as well as…

Carole King: …(1966; the Animals), and “(You Make Me Feel like) A Natural Woman” (1967; Aretha Franklin).

the Cars: Mainstream success and breakup: The most notable is “You Might Think,” a song featuring Ocasek on lead vocals that became the band’s first number 1 single on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. The music video for “You Might Think,” with its creative use of computer graphics that contributed greatly to its popularity, was…

Andrew Lloyd Webber: Early career: … for best original song (“You Must Love Me”) for the 1996 film adaptation, which starred Madonna.

Wole Soyinka: Cultural criticism and memoirs: …2006 he published another memoir, You Must Set Forth at Dawn.

Fritz Lang: First films in Hollywood of Fritz Lang: …Wanger on the equally grim You Only Live Once (1937). Based partly on the story of real-life fugitives Bonnie and Clyde, it starred Henry Fonda as an ex-convict who is unjustly sentenced to death for murder. Unaware that he has been pardoned, he breaks out of jail and heads for…

You Only Live Twice, British spy film, released in 1967, that was the fifth entry in the James Bond franchise, particularly notable for its set designs. As the film opens, a U.S. space capsule is on a routine mission when an unidentified vehicle opens its hatches and swallows the capsule. The

While many movie locations exist only on a studio backlot or as a collection of data on a hard drive, some of the most recognizable sites on the silver screen are only a hop, skip, and a transoceanic plane ride away. list, downton abbey, star wars, movie locations, hobbit, lord of the rings, luke

Ray Davies: Life as a Kink: …1964 the Kinks’ single “You Really Got Me” put them on the road to success. Written by Davies and influenced by rhythm and blues, the song was driven by Dave Davies’s distorted guitar riff (partly the result of the slashing of the cone in his amplifier with a razor)…

R.K. Laxman: …created the daily comic strip You Said It, which chronicles Indian life and politics through the eyes of the Common Man, a bulbous-nosed, bespectacled observer dressed in a dhoti and a distinctive checked coat. This character served as a silent witness to corrupt bureaucracy, political opportunism, and economic challenges, prompting…

Sam Cooke: …first hit, the ethereal “You Send Me,” which shot to number one on all charts in 1957 and established Cooke as a superstar.

Roberto Benigni: …with Tu mi turbi (You Upset Me), which he also wrote and starred in. The film featured his wife, actress Nicoletta Braschi, who frequently appeared in his work and played his onscreen spouse in Life Is Beautiful. Benigni again performed triple duties in Il piccolo diavolo (1988; “The Little…

Leonard Cohen: …death, Cohen’s 14th studio album, You Want It Darker (2016), was received by critics as a late-period masterpiece. For the title track, he posthumously received a Grammy Award for best rock performance. In 2008 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 2010 he was…

Rita Hayworth: …Never Get Rich (1941) and You Were Never Lovelier (1942) and with Gene Kelly in Cover Girl (1944), a film that helped establish both Hayworth and Kelly among the top stars of the day. It was also during this time that she became a favourite pinup of American servicemen; her…

Joaquin Phoenix: Later career: Joker and Napoleon: >You Were Never Really Here (2017; best actor award at the Cannes film festival), Van Sant’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot (2018), Mary Magdalene (2018), and Jacques Audiard’s Les Frères Sisters (2018; The Sisters Brothers)—were all critically well received but not widely…

Dante: Dante’s intellectual development and public career: …il terzo ciel movete” (“You Who Through Intelligence Move the Third Sphere”) he dramatizes this conversion from the sweet old style, associated with Beatrice and the Vita nuova, to the rigorous, even severe, new style associated with philosophy. This period of study gave expression to a series of canzoni…

Woody Allen: The 2010s, 2020s, and renewed controversy: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) had a far more high-profile cast—Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin, Gemma Jones, and Frieda Pinto—but the multiple romantic roundelays here never seem to add up to anything of substance, despite an offbeat plot involving…

Noomi Rapace: …krabba (Black Crab) and in You Won’t Be Alone (both 2022); the latter, an exploration of identity and belonging, follows a young woman raised in isolation who becomes a shape-shifting witch.

Phil Collins: Solo career: …best original song for “You’ll Be in My Heart,” which was released for the Walt Disney animated movie Tarzan.

Jack Albertson: …acting on television, including on The Phil Silvers Show (1956–57). His other movies included Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), How to Murder Your Wife (1965), and The Flim-Flam Man (1967). Albertson played Grandpa Joe in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Sidney Lanfield: Later films: …Fox, Lanfield made the musical You’ll Never Get Rich (1941) for Columbia. It was the first screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth and was notable for their dance numbers and a fine Cole Porter score. The director then signed with Paramount, where his first assignment was The Lady…

pop ballad: …Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s “You’ll Never Walk Alone” as the most sung song in the stands of football (soccer) stadiums in Britain.

Francis Ford Coppola: Early years: …directed the charming coming-of-age tale You’re a Big Boy Now (also 1966), which served as his master’s thesis film. Short on plot but rich with incident, it was the story of a virginal young man (played by Peter Kastner) looking for love while in the employ of the New York…

Peanuts: …subject of the stage musical You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1967; television adaptations 1973 and 1985) and The Peanuts Movie (2015), a 3-D computer-generated adventure. Over the comic strip’s 50-year run, Schulz refused to allow anyone else to draw or write Peanuts, and the collected body of work, amounting…

List of Songs About America: You’re a Grand Old Flag: Cohan, the composer of “You’re a Grand Old Flag,” became famous in the early 20th century as the “Yankee Doodle Dandy” and “the man who owned Broadway.” An important figure in the development of American theater, especially musical comedies, he produced more than 50 musicals and published hundreds of…

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Will Ferrell: Later credits: …Witherspoon in the romantic comedy You’re Cordially Invited, about double-booked weddings.

Lorna Simpson: You’re Fine, You’re Hired (1988), using Polaroid prints framed in wood, depicted an African American woman lying on her side. To the left of the images was a list of terms relating to a physical exam; to the right, the words Secretarial and Position.

Carly Simon: “You’re So Vain,” like the album No Secrets, reached number one on the Billboard chart in 1973. She eventually revealed the subject of the song to be actor Warren Beatty. She had a major hit with her album Hotcakes (1974), which included “Haven’t Got Time…

Will Ferrell: Later credits: … debut in the one-man play You’re Welcome America. A Final Night with George W. Bush, which he wrote. The play featured Ferrell’s Bush giving some imaginative reminiscences and defenses of his administration. It earned a Tony Award nomination for special theatrical event and was broadcast on the cable channel HBO…

Paul Anka: …performed with Odia Coates, “(You’re) Having My Baby,” which proved controversial with both sides of the abortion debate. He had a hit in 1983 with “Hold Me ’Til the Mornin’ Comes,” a duet with Peter Cetera. Anka toured and continued to release compilations and concert recordings throughout the 1980s…

Suze Orman: In 1994 Orman released You’ve Earned It, Don’t Lose It, appearing on television’s home shopping network QVC to promote the book. Aided by her on-screen energy and thought-provoking insights, it quickly sold out. Orman’s follow-up, The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom (1997), was on The New York Times best-seller…