Obituaries

Jockey Kota Fujioka died Wednesday night at a hospital where he was taken after falling off a hor...

Former yokozuna Akebono died from heart failure. He was 54.

LONDON (AP) — Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-cal...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Democrat Joseph E. Brennan, whose hardscrabble childhood shaped his workin...

Former NHK announcer Kenji Suzuki, who gained popularity as the host of culture and information p...

HONOLULU (AP) — Lou Conter, the last living survivor of the USS Arizona battleship that exploded ...

Ushio Amagatsu, who led the internationally acclaimed butoh dance company Sankai Juku for almost ...

A farewell ceremony for enka ballad singer Aki Yashiro, who passed away in December at 73, was he...

Actor Minori Terada, whose career spanned over six decades, died of lung cancer on March 14. He w...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — M. Emmet Walsh, the character actor who brought his unmistakable face and unse...

Mutsumi Inomata, an illustrator and animator who helped design characters for Mobile Suit Gundam ...

World-class rally driver Kenjiro Shinozuka, the first Japanese driver to win the Paris-Dakar Rall...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Mario Zagallo, who won four soccer World Cups for Brazil as either pla...

DALLAS (AP) — Confined to an iron lung after contracting polio as a child, Paul Alexander managed...

Dorie Ann Ladner, a longtime fighter for freedom and equality in her home state of Mississippi wi...