Notable Deaths in 2016

Ninagawa Yukio in 2001. (© Jiji)

Nakamura Hiroko at a press conference in Tokyo in 2009, fifty years after she made her professional debut. (© Jiji)

Tabei Junko (center) reunites with her daughter at Haneda Airport on June 20, 1975, after returning to Japan, following her successful ascent of Mount Everest. (© Jiji)