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Antonio Inoki, seen here in 1992, became known for his trademark flying scissors and drop kicks which he executed with lightning speed.
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Antonio Inoki's life spanned sports, politics and diplomacy

Influential and colorful wrestler leaves indelible mark on Japan's postwar history

4 October 2022
Queen Elizabeth II opens a plant sciences laboratory at the University of Cambridge Botanic Garden in 2011.
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Elizabeth's passing closes book on seven decades of continuity

Monarch offered reassuring presence in a changing Britain

9 September 2022
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Tim Page, the photographer who lived on borrowed time

Witness to the Vietnam War with an idiosyncratic humanist agenda

9 September 2022
Kazuo Inamori served as chairman of Japan Airlines, leading a revival of the carrier after its 2010 bankruptcy filing. (Photo by Konosuke Urata)
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Kyocera founder Kazuo Inamori parlayed insecurities into success

Early setbacks shaped renowned executive's approach to business -- and life

31 August 2022
 Kyocera and KDDI founder Kazuo Inamori died on Aug. 24. (Photo by Yoshiyuki Tamai)
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Kyocera and KDDI founder Kazuo Inamori dies at 90

Renowned entrepreneur also applied his talents to restructuring JAL

30 August 2022
Hanae Mori with her granddaughter Izumi Mori at the finale of a fashion show in Paris in July 2004. (Getty Images)
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Hanae Mori saw women's success, Japan's revival in butterfly motif

Trailblazing designer led way for Japanese fashion's international acclaim

18 August 2022
Fashion designer Issey Miyake is shown in this photo from 2010.
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Issey Miyake favored creation over destruction, 1 cloth at a time

Famed Japanese designer and atomic bomb survivor revolutionized fashion

10 August 2022
Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake died of liver cancer at age 84 on Aug. 5. (File photo) 
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Japanese fashion star Issey Miyake dies at 84

Kimono-inspired works won the designer renown in haute couture

9 August 2022
Olivia Newton-John performs in Los Angeles, U.S. in 2016. 
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Pop music and 'Grease' star Olivia Newton-John dies at 73

British-born Australian singer and actor was a four-time Grammy winner

9 August 2022
Shigeaki Wada, one of the most influential Japanese retail bosses, was involved with department store brand Seibu for five decades.
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Shigeaki Wada, Japan's master of department store turnarounds, dead at 88

Retail boss made Sogo and Seibu profitable and led way for sector's consolidation

4 August 2022
Fidel Ramos flexes his muscles after surgery in 1996. Ramos prided himself on his healthy lifestyle.
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Fidel Ramos, a former Philippine general who denounced despots

Former president eschewed dynastic politics, consolidated democracy

1 August 2022
Philippine former President Fidel Ramos, who ruled the country between 1992 and 1998, died on Sunday aged 94, online news site Rappler reported.
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Philippine ex-President Fidel Ramos dies at 94

Former military officer helped topple dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos Sr.

1 August 2022
Shinzo Abe served as prime minister from December 2012 to September 2020, longer than any other postwar premier.
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Shinzo Abe, a skillful statesman, showed the world 'Japan is back'

Abenomics and collective self-defense among political scion's achievements

9 July 2022
Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a campaign rally, moments before he was shot, in the western city of Nara on July 8. 
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Japan's former PM Shinzo Abe assassinated

Nation's longest-serving leader shot days before upper house election

8 July 2022
Lee O-young speaks at the 4th Northeast Asia Trilateral Forum in Busan in April 2009. Lee wrote more than 60 books, including a Japanese bestseller, "The Compact Culture: The Japanese Tradition of 'Smaller Is Better.'" (Photo by Yoshiyuki Tamai)
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Lee O-young, who helped South Korea see beauty, dies at 88

Nation's first culture minister laid groundwork for today's hallyu Korean boom

23 June 2022
Idei, right, at a press conference, along with then-Chairman Norio Ohga in 1999.
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Former Sony chief Idei battled pressure of keeping up Sony legend

Chairman and CEO demonstrated foresight for the digital era

8 June 2022
Nobuyuki Idei, then-chairman of Sony, is seen at a press conference in May 2004. 
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Sony's former chairman, Nobuyuki Idei, dies at 84

Group CEO played key role in turning electronics company into tech giant

7 June 2022
Former Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta makes remarks after his swearing in ceremony as former President George W. Bush listens in 2001.
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Norman Mineta, transportation secretary in 9/11 era, dies

First Asian American to serve as a Cabinet member

4 May 2022
Ivica Osim, then the manager of Japan's national soccer team, gives instructions to players in October 2007. He trained the players by offering a different regimen every day.
3 May 2022
Manga artist Fujiko A. Fujio said in 2002 that his motto was "Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow."
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Curiosity fueled manga artist Fujiko A. Fujio's 70-year career

Abiko, whose works ran gamut from kid-friendly comics to dark humor, dies at 88

8 April 2022
Peng Jiasheng, the founding leader of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDDA), an armed group based in the Kokang region of northern Shan state, who died on Feb. 16 at the age of 94. 
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Peng Jiasheng, life and times of a Kokang warlord

'King' of Myanmar's Chinese micro-state highlights web of Sino-Burmese connections

29 March 2022
Former Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu with his wife Sachiyo at his home in Tokyo in August 1989.
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Japan former Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu dies at 91

Leader during Gulf War focused on political reform at home

14 January 2022
Shigeo Iizuka, center, in 2018. 
18 December 2021
Former Cambodian First Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh at a political rally in 1998. (Photo by Dominic Faulder)
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Cambodia's Norodom Ranariddh: The man who would not be king

Death of the academic prince who battled political headwinds for decades

4 December 2021
Actor David Gulpilil, who died on November 29, pictured here in 2005 as part of a new production of "Walkabout" in which he first starred in as a 15-year-old.
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Indigenous icon David Gulpilil leaves indelible cinematic legacy

Actor remembered as one of the greatest Australia has produced

4 December 2021