Yonemura

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Yonemura (米村) is a Japanese surname composed of yone ("rice plant") and mura ("village") and meaning "rice plant village." The Yonemura surname, though found throughout country, appears most frequently in southern Japan, with a particularly high concentration in the area of the former Kumamoto (Higo) Province on Kyūshū, the country's southern-most main island.

Many people named Yonemura also live in Brazil. Most emigrated there in the immediate post-World War II period in search of new opportunities unavailable to them at the time in Japan.