How to say "yes-man" in Japanese

• 言いなりいいなりCommon
  nounCovers the plain yes-man sense: someone who does whatever they are told and agrees with everything said to them. Natural for describing a subordinate or partner who never pushes back on anything.
  彼かれはすべて妻つまの言いいなりになっている。↗

  He echoes his wife in everything.
• 人形にんぎょうJLPT N4approx.Common
  nounLiterally a doll or puppet; applied to a person it is figurative — a puppet under another's control, or a straw man. Its yes-man sense comes through that image of being controlled, not through agreeableness.

Choose 「言いなり」 for the straightforward yes-man — someone who does and agrees with whatever they are told — and 人形 when you mean it figuratively, picturing the person as a puppet controlled or used by someone else.

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• 言いなりいいなりdoing as one is told
• イエスマンyes-man
• 言うなりいうなりdoing as one is told
• 人形にんぎょうpuppet (person under the control of another)