The yawara is a Japanese weapon used in various martial arts.

Yawara may also refer to:

Yawara, an obsolete term for jujutsu (based on an alternate pronunciation of the 柔 kanji) Yawara!, a manga series, as well as the anime and live-action series based on the manga "Yawara-chan", the nickname of Ryoko Tani, after the main character in the Yawara! manga Yawara, Ibaraki, a village in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

People with the given name , Japanese politician