Obituaries

Actor and narrator Atomu Shimojo passed away on Jan. 29, his management office announced Thursday...

A farewell ceremony for Tsuneo Watanabe is scheduled to be held at the Imperial Hotel Tokyo in Ch...

Tokyo (Jiji Press)—Yoshio Yoshida, former player and then manager of the Hanshin Tigers professio...

NEW YORK (AP) — Marianne Faithfull, the British pop star, muse, libertine and old soul who inspir...

Tokyo (Jiji Press)—Popular Japanese economist Takuro Morinaga, a professor at Dokkyo University i...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Sam Moore, the surviving half and higher voice of the 1960s duo Sam & D...

BANGKOK — Katsumasa Yagisawa, a board member of the Shanti Volunteer Association, a Tokyo-based o...

Kazuhiko Otani, president and chief executive officer of hotel operator New Otani Co., died of es...

Hiroshi Hara, the architect known for designing Kyoto Station Building and Osaka's Umeda Sky Buil...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Tomiko Itooka, recognized by Britain’s Guinness World Records as the world’s...

Tokyo (Jiji Press)—Japanese composer Toru Fuyuki, known for works including the theme song for “U...

With the passing of Jimmy Carter this week, condolences came from various parts of Japan that had...

— Oct. 1, 1924: James Earl Carter Jr. is born in Plains, Georgia, son of James Sr. and Lillian Go...

Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba Sunday extended his condolences to the families of the victims of th...

ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who tried to restore virtue to the White House aft...