Obituaries

Tasuku Naono, a baritone singer and Professor Emeritus at Tokyo University of the Arts, died on M...

Actress Kazuko Yoshiyuki died at the age of 90, it was learned Tuesday.

Mayumi Narita, Japan’s record-setting para swimmer who won 15 Paralympic gold medals, has died at...

Japanese singer Yukio Hashi died on Thursday at the age of 82.

ROME (Reuters) — Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani has died, the company said on Thursday.<...

LONDON (AP) — Terence Stamp, the British actor who often played the role of a complex villain, in...

Sen Genshitsu, the former head of the Urasenke tea ceremony school that carries on the legacy of ...

Tokyo, Aug. 10 (Jiji Press) — Kunishige Kamamoto, who was widely considered the greatest striker ...

Japan's soccer legend Kunishige Kamamoto died at the age of 81 at a hospital in Osaka on Sunday.<...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected president after the fall of...

LONDON (AP) — Stella Rimington, the first female chief of Britain’s MI5 intelligence agency and l...

Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan 's death last week was caused by a heart attack, according to a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Two-time Grammy Award-winning musician Chuck Mangione, who achieved international...

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Hulk Hogan, the mustachioed, headscarf-wearing, bicep-busting icon of pro...

Shunsaku Tamiya, the Chairman of Tamiya, Inc., died on Friday at age 90, it has been learned.