Although most viewers interpret the term "ronin" to be figurative in Wolverine's case (he's a warrior without a purpose), Logan ends up losing his way and quits the X-Men not just because of the guilt he carries for being forced to kill Jean, but also because he no longer has any guidance after Professor X's (his "master," so to speak) apparent death in X-Men: The Last Stand. (Remember that Logan became very upset after he realized Xavier didn't survive the Phoenix's attack.) While he's no longer moping by the time he leaves Japan, Wolverine still doesn't seem to be fighting for a cause that's important to him in the two-year gap before the post-credits sequence until a resurrected Professor X meets him at the airport. This scene makes it clear that Logan will only listen to Xavier, and not even a desperate Magneto can sway him. X-Men: Days of Future Past later shows us that Wolverine is once again part of the X-Men, deferring to Charles' authority. Jean may be the love of Logan's life (in his mind, at least), but it's Xavier who gives the "samurai" side in him meaning.
Of course Yukio didn't forsee Yashida's death, because he wasn't really dead.
To be fair, she didn't foresee him actually dying at the end of the movie either.
It became Harsher in Hindsight the moment one watches "Logan" where Logan did die.
You know what, we never see his dead body after he gets thrown out the window by Logan. Maybe he's still alive?
Due to Logan changing the past, that might either be a yes or a no, depending on how much of the timeline remained the same after said trip.
Yashida keeps calling Logan "kuzuri" at his sickbed before his fake death. While "kuzuri" is allusion to a mythological japanese creature with huge claws, it also sounds a lot like "kusuri" or medicine. Guess "who" is the medicine that Yashida plans to obtain to become immortal.
You know how Logan acted like he didn't remember anything about Yashida and never went back to get that sword? Well that's because he didn't remember. He had bone claws in the flashback segments, meaning he hadn't lost his memories due to the adamantium bullets yet. Though there's still the Fridge Logic of why he never went back to get it after leaving his squad...
Hey this is Wolverine, who is pretty much unkillable. In his mind he has all the time in the world, besides it's not like he uses it, when he has 6 blades that he can pop out at will.
While the movie seems to go out of its way not to reference X-Men Origins: Wolverine, they share a plot point that was unremarked upon in the previous movie — that super-heating adamantium lets you cut through it. Recall during the fight with Weapon XI, when is Logan able to actually land the killing blow? After blocking the eyebeams for a solid minute, leaving his claws glowing red hot.
Logan gets shot several times without his healing factor but manages to shrug them off, and even treats two shots to the arms as a nuisance. The bathroom scene in the train makes shows why. Logan may have lost his healing factor, but his indestructible adamantium skeleton is still there, and the bullets only manage to pierce the flesh around the bones and the bones protected his internal organs from serious injury.
Throughout the film, we are shown that Logan is severely wounded by cuts, gunshots, etc. Yet he can retract his claws without any problems coming from the cuts caused when the claws extend from his knuckles.
This is Wolverine. Although his Healing Factor was keeping the parasite and Adamantium poisoning at bay, he got enough Healing Factor to endure most of the pain he experienced throughout his time in Japan until he removed the parasite from inside him.
Yashida's merciful release of the prisoners in the opening prologue probably got them roasted to death by the atomic fireball.
They would have died anyway had they been left in the cages. At least they still have a chance to run as far as they could and hopefully outrun the blast radius. Of course, that is also unlikely and most of them would get radiation poisoning anything, but still...
X-Men: Days of Future Past reveals that the Sentinels have swept over the Earth, wiping out most mutants as well as the humans that ally with them. Combined with the Yashida Zaibatsu being one of the foremost tech conglomerates on the planet (thus a likely target for takeover and repurposing,) this very likely means that both Yukio and her surrogate sister Mariko are dead.
Which all changed the moment Logan succeeded in changing the past.
