Celebrities from Japan
Japan: 230 memorial pages
of people who were born or died here, were laid to rest here, or came from Japan
Memorial
Yukio Endō
01/18/1937 – 03/25/2009
72 years
Japanese gymnast
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Ryūzō Hiraki
10/07/1931 – 01/02/2009
77 years
Japanese association football player and manager
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Itō Kiyoshi
09/07/1915 – 11/10/2008
93 years
Japanese mathematician who pioneered stochastic calculus
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Fukuoka Masanobu
02/02/1913 – 08/16/2008
95 years
Japanese farmer and philosopher
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Ken Naganuma
09/05/1930 – 06/02/2008
77 years
Japanese association football player and manager
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Kon Ichikawa
née Uji Yamada
11/20/1915 – 02/13/2008
92 years
Japanese film director and screenwriter
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Phyllis Whitney
09/09/1903 – 02/08/2008
104 years
American writer
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Ichiji Ōtani
08/31/1912 – 11/23/2007
95 years
Japanese association football player
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Stephen Fumio Hamao
03/09/1930 – 11/08/2007
77 years
Japanese Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
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Kishō Kurokawa
04/08/1934 – 10/12/2007
73 years
Japanese architect
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Katsuko Saruhashi
03/22/1920 – 09/29/2007
87 years
Japanese geochemist
Memorial
Kenji Nagai
08/27/1957 – 09/27/2007
50 years
Japanese journalist
Memorial
Nobuo Matsunaga
12/06/1921 – 09/25/2007
85 years
Japanese association football player
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Miyoshi Umeki
05/08/1929 – 08/28/2007
78 years
Japanese-American actress and singer
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Miyazawa Kiichi
10/08/1919 – 06/28/2007
87 years
78th Prime Minister of Japan
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Toshikatsu Matsuoka
02/25/1945 – 05/28/2007
62 years
Japanese politician
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Izumi Sakai
02/06/1967 – 05/27/2007
40 years
Japanese singer
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Arawa Kimura
07/08/1931 – 02/21/2007
75 years
Japanese association football player
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Momofuku Andō
née Gô Peh-Hok
03/05/1910 – 01/05/2007
96 years
Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, created instant noodle (ramyeon), Nissin Chikin Ramen
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Iva Ikuko Toguri D’Aquino
07/04/1916 – 09/26/2006
90 years
World War II propaganda announcer "Orphan Ann", and best-known "Tokyo Rose" announcer
Memorial
Makoto Iwamatsu
12/10/1933 – 07/21/2006
72 years
Japanese-American actor
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Ryūtarō Hashimoto
07/29/1937 – 07/01/2006
68 years
82nd and 83rd Prime Minister of Japan
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Tadao Ōnishi
04/18/1943 – 06/29/2006
63 years
Japanese association football player
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Shōhei Imamura
09/15/1926 – 05/30/2006
79 years
Japanese film director
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