In Popular Culture
- Fictional comic strip character Modesty Blaise often uses a single yawara, which she calls a "kongo".
- Tommy Okase in J. T. Edson's Ole Devil series uses a yawara.
- The yawara plays an important role in the 2004 movie Twisted.
- Cold Steel, a blade and weapon speciality company, markets the Pocket Shark, a durable, reinforced polymer permanent marker designed to hold up to impact and pressure with the intention of being used as a yawara. Cold Steel also markets the Koga SD series, of structural nylon, for use as short batons.
- The Japanese manga and anime YAWARA! ran from 1986 to 1993 and tells the story of Yawara Inokuma, a young girl who aspires to an ordinary life but who, due to her innate talent, is forced to keep practicing judo by her authoritarian grandfather, Jigorou Inokuma, with the aim of achieving championship in Japan and the gold medal in the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games.
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