People from Japan

10 people remembered here.

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  Yayoi Kusama

  1929 – 2026 · Conceptual artist

  210 candles · 15 tributes
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  Hiroshi Okuda

  1932 – 2026 · Businessman

  Toyota outsider who forced the Prius into the world and remade Japanese industry.

  97 candles · 4 tributes
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  Yoshikazu Hasegawa

  1930 – 2026 · Vertebrate paleontologist

  He showed Japan its first plesiosaur and spent a life reading fossil bones.

  95 candles · 7 tributes
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  Great Gidayu

  1958 – 2026 · Japanese comedian

  Takeshi Army's Benkei: guitar, rakugo, and laughter through dialysis.

  74 candles · 9 tributes
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  Shinichi Abe

  1950 – 2026 · Manga artist

  Garo artist who turned Asagaya love and later illness into private manga that outlived the silence.

  70 candles · 10 tributes
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  Isao Harimoto

  1940 – 2026 · Professional baseball outfielder

  NPB's only 3,000-hit man, Hiroshima survivor, and Sunday Morning's blunt Appare / Kats voice.

  41 candles · 8 tributes
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  Keiko Kishi

  1932 – 2026 · Actress

  International star of postwar Japanese film who chose courage over comfort, from Machiko-maki fame to Paris and the page.

  39 candles · 5 tributes
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  Masao Yora

  1957 – 2026 · Political journalist

  Mainichi political voice and Nスタ commentator who cut into Nagatacho with glasses, a mustache, and an evening column.

  30 candles · 8 tributes
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  Toyohiro Akiyama

  1942 – 2026 · Television journalist (TBS)

  First Japanese in space. Journalist on Mir. Farmer after the flight.

  0 candles · 0 tributes
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  Hideki Shirakawa

  1936 – 2026 · Chemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba

  The chemist who made plastic conduct electricity and opened a new era of materials.

  0 candles · 0 tributes