Notable Deaths in 2024

Toriyama Akira in 1982. (© Jiji)

Akebono appears as yokozuna to perform ceremonial rites at Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine in April 1999. (© Reuters)

Actor Nishida Toshiyuki in July 2009. (© Jiji)

Tanikawa Shuntarō in December 2017. (© Jiji)

Watanabe Tsuneo (left) took part in a ceremony celebrating Nakasone Yasuhiro’s (right) ninety-sixth birthday in May 2014. (© Jiji)