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OBITUARY

Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 22, 2021
Japanese 'Frozen' voice actress Sayaka Kanda cremated
Actor Masaki Kanda and singer Seiko Matsuda stood side by side dressed in funeral attire as they briefly spoke with the media after the cremation of their only child.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2021
Masayuki Uemura, creator of NES and SNES game consoles, dies at 78
The two consoles developed by Uemura for Nintendo became huge hits with combined sales of 100 million units worldwide.
Japan Times
SUMO
Nov 22, 2021
Former heavyweight wrestler Toyonoumi dies of illness at age 56
The wrestler did not miss a single match in his 19-year professional career and competed in 1,316 consecutive bouts, the eighth longest record in sumo history.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 21, 2021
Oscar-winning Japanese costume designer Emi Wada dies at 84
A Kyoto native, Wada won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design in 1986 for her work on Akira Kurosawa's film 'Ran.'
Japan Times
JAPAN / OBITUARY
Nov 14, 2021
Jakucho Setouchi: A freewheeling nun who bucked conventional norms for women
Prior to beginning her religious journey in 1973, Jakucho Setouchi established herself first and foremost as a writer — and a controversial one at that.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 11, 2021
Novelist and Buddhist nun Jakucho Setouchi dies at 99
Setouchi, who is known for depicting the lives and loves of modern women in award-winning novels such as 'The End of Summer' and 'Ask the Blossoms,' died of heart failure.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / OBITUARY
Nov 7, 2021
Joyce Lebra: Trailblazing scholar and witness to Japanese history
The world of academia lost a true pioneer when Joyce Lebra passed away last month. She received the Order of the Rising Sun award in a ceremony a month earlier.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 4, 2021
Crown Princess Kiko's father, Tatsuhiko Kawashima, dies at 81
Kawashima was admitted to a Tokyo hospital on Oct. 19, with Crown Princess Kiko and her two daughters visiting the hospital to see him that day.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 26, 2021
Roh Tae-woo, first freely elected South Korea leader, dies at 88
Roh worked to set a new tone with Japan, leading diplomacy that resulted in Tokyo issuing a historic apology for its 1910-45 colonial rule over the Korean Peninsula.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 18, 2021
Colin Powell, U.S. Army general-turned-top diplomat, dies at 84
Powell, the first African American to be U.S. secretary of state and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, died Monday due to complications from COVID-19.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2021
Mayumi Moriyama, Japan's first female chief Cabinet secretary, dies at 93
Moriyama made headlines in 1990 when she tried to present a trophy to a sumo champion in the ring — traditionally off-limits to women — and was stopped by the Japan Sumo Association.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2021
National treasure rakugo storyteller Yanagiya Kosanji dies at 81
Kosanji became the third living national treasure among rakugo storytellers in 2014 after his master Yanagiya Kosan and Katsura Beicho.
Japan Times
JAPAN / OBITUARY
Oct 7, 2021
Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer of Dragon Quest, dies at 90
Sugiyama, who composed music for the hit video game franchise since its release in 1986, is considered to have played a key role in its boom and establishing the genre of game music.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / OBITUARY
Oct 4, 2021
David Jack: ‘One of the most inspiring people’ in Kansai
David Jack, who passed away last month due to a stroke, helmed Kansai Time Out, a lifeline for the non-Japanese community between 1977 and 2009.
Japan Times
CULTURE
Sep 29, 2021
'Golgo 13' author Takao Saito dies at 84
Saito, who died on Friday, was best known for the series, which follows the exploits of a highly skilled assassin.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 23, 2021
Melvin Van Peebles, champion of new Black cinema, dies at 89
A fertile creative force, he wrote fiction and musicals but is best known for a breakthrough movie that heralded the genre known as blaxploitation.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / OBITUARY
Aug 25, 2021
Charlie Watts, Rolling Stones' beat maker for almost six decades, dies at 80
Music's biggest legends remember Charlie Watts, who provided the heartbeat for the Rolling Stones in terms of both music and spirit.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2021
Robert 'Skipp' Orr, key figure in U.S.-Japan relations, dies age 68
Orr enjoyed a long and distinguished career in business, government and academia, with positions at the Asian Development Bank, Boeing Japan and others organizations.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Aug 17, 2021
Mary Fujishima, J-pop matriarch of Johnny & Associates, dies at 93
Johnny & Associates Inc. announced today that its honorary chairperson, Mary Yasuko Fujishima, sister of music mogul and company founder Johnny Kitagawa, died of pneumonia at a hospital in Tokyo on Aug. 14. She was 93 years old.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2021
Toshihide Masukawa, 2008 Nobel laureate in physics, dies at 81
As well as his theory on elementary particles, the scientist was known for being involved in activities to protect Japan's pacifist constitution and other peace activities.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
One dead, three missing as heavy rain batters Tohoku
Camera footage shows the Mogami River bursting its banks in Tozawa, Yamagata Prefecture, on Friday morning.
Brazil issues apology for persecuting Japan immigrants during WWII
Enea Almeida (right), chair of the Brazilian amnesty commission, shakes hands with the representative for Japanese immigrants on Thursday in Brasilia.
When did summer in Japan stop being fun?
Summer in Japan is now consistently brutal enough to drive you indoors and keep you there until autumn.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

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