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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 / 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
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
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 24, 2021
Benigno Aquino III, who led Philippine growth spurt, dies at 61
Aquino, who served as the nation's president from 2010 to 2016, was rushed to a hospital in Quezon City where he died after heart failure, the Manila Bulletin reported on Thursday.
JAPAN / Media
Jun 23, 2021
Takashi Tachibana, who shed light on Lockheed scandal, dies at 80
Tachibana's work is often credited with having played a major role in bringing down the late Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, Japan's most powerful leader in the postwar era.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
May 27, 2021
Eric Carle, author of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar,’ dies at 91
When a fictional caterpillar chomps through one apple, two pears, three plums, four strawberries, five oranges, one piece of chocolate cake, one ice cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake and one slice of...
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WORLD
Apr 20, 2021
Walter Mondale, former U.S. vice president and ambassador to Japan, dies at 93
Mondale's time in Japan was marked by tough negotiations over bilateral trade issues, especially those related to semiconductors and insurance.

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