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The Yamato-Yagi Station is a large Kintetsu train station serving Yagi, with express lines to downtown Osaka (40 minutes), Kyoto (1 hour) and Nara city (20 minutes). A large percentage of Yagi's population work in these neighboring cities. Yagi has a considerable foreign population made up of English language teachers and Peruvian factory workers.
Yoshinori Yagi (八木 義徳, Yagi Yoshinori, October 21, 1911 – November 9, 1999) was a noted Japanese author. Yagi was born in Muroran, Hokkaidō, and graduated from Waseda University in 1938 with a degree in French literature. In 1944 he became employed in the chemical industry in Manchuria.
The Yagibushi (Japanese: 八木節, meaning song of yagi [1]) is a popular folk song and dance performed at matsuri (and occasionally Undokai sports days) in Gunma and Tochigi, Japan. It consists of dancers with broad hats called kasa going in a counter clockwise circle around a mikoshi .
Hiroshi Yagi (八木 宏, Yagi Hiroshi, March 23, 1956 – October 18, 2009), best known by his ring name Ryuma Go (剛 竜馬, Gō Ryūma), was a Japanese professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenures in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), Wrestle Association-R (WAR) and the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA).
Winther-Tamaki, Bert. "Yagi Kazuo: The Admission of the Nonfunctional Object into the Japanese Pottery World". Journal of Design History Vol. 12 No. 2 (1999): 123-141. Cort, Louise Allison. "Japanese Encounters with Clay." In Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics: A Close Embrace of the Earth, 103-191. Edited by Louise Allison Cort and ...
Norihiro Yagi (八木 教広, Yagi Norihiro, born 1968) is a Japanese manga writer and artist from Okinawa Prefecture. He started making manga in 1990. Norihiro Yagi is a successful manga artist, having won the 32nd Akatsuka Award for his first work, Undeadman. [citation needed] Undeadman appeared in Monthly Shōnen Jump and has had two sequels.
Yagi is easily accessible via the JR Sagano Train Line from Kyoto. Yagi has a long history dating back at least as far as the Nara Period, when Yagi's extant Sanin Road was a main route through the prefecture, linking Kyoto to Kameoka and Sonobe. In 1960 Yagi and the surrounding area was hit by a massive typhoon. The banks of the Ōi River ...
Jūkichi Yagi (八木 重吉, Yagi Jūkichi, 9 February 1898 – 26 October 1927) was a Japanese poet active in the late Taishō period and for the first few years of the Shōwa period, who focused on modern religious themes.