Obituaries

Tetsuzo Fuwa, former Chairperson of the Japan Communist Party’s Executive Committee, died at the ...

Kayoko Ebina, the widow of rakugoka comic storyteller Hayashiya Sanpei, has died at the age of 92...

Screenwriter Makiko Uchidate died on Dec. 17 from acute heart failure at the age of 77.

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Mohammad Bakri, a Palestinian director and actor who sought to share the ...

Professional golfer Masashi Ozaki, known by his nickname “Jumbo Ozaki” and long regarded as Japan...

Tokyo, Dec. 22 (Jiji Press)—Kazuhiro Sugita, who was Japan’s longest-serving deputy chief cabinet...

LONDON (AP) — Chris Rea, the singer and songwriter best known for the hit “Driving Home for Chris...

Anthony Geary, who rose to fame in the 1970s and '80s as half the daytime TV super couple Luke an...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japanese film director Masato Harada, known for socially conscious works inc...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Frank Gehry, who designed some of the most imaginative buildings ever construc...

LONDON (AP) — British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Aw...

Mayor Yutaka Ota of the city of Azumino, Nagano Prefecture, 69, passed away on Friday.

He...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Dharmendra, one of Indian cinema’s most popular stars whose versatile performanc...

Kabuki actor Kataoka Kamezo, 64, died in a fire in Adachi Ward, Tokyo, on Monday.

The fir...

Paul Costelloe, the Irish-American designer who dressed the late Princess Diana and became a stal...