A group of Japanese called the Yamato grew pineapples in Boca Raton, Florida in the early 20th century. There is now a street named after them "Yamato Road" (That is of course, if the info I was given in school is true).
-- Anonymous User 9/30/2007
A character from Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02 was named Yamato Ishida in the Japanese version. In the English version, however, he was called Matt.