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Kyu Sakamoto with his mother, Iku, in 1951 Sakamoto was born on 10 December 1941, in Kawasaki , Kanagawa Prefecture , to Hiroshi Sakamoto, a cargo tender officer, and his second wife, Iku. The youngest of his father's nine children, he was nicknamed Kyū -chan ( 九ちゃん ) , meaning "Lil Nine", with Kyū also being an alternative reading of ...
Among the victims were Japanese singer and actor Kyu Sakamoto, and banker Akihisa Yukawa, the father of violinist and composer Diana Yukawa. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] The flight connected two of the largest cities of Japan, and a number of other celebrities initially booked the flight but ultimately had either switched to another flight or used the Tokaido ...
Ue o Muite Arukō: Sakamoto Kyu Monogatari/Walking while Looking Up - The Kyu Sakamoto Story (上を向いて歩こう-坂本九物語) is a biography based on the Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto's life. The movie was first broadcast on TV Tokyo on August 21, 2005 as a commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Sakamoto's death.
"Ue o Muite Arukō" (Japanese: 上を向いて歩こう, "I Look Up as I Walk"), alternatively titled "Sukiyaki", is a song by Japanese crooner Kyu Sakamoto, first released in Japan in 1961. The song topped the charts in a number of countries, including the U.S. Billb
Yukiko Kashiwagi (柏木 由紀子, Kashiwagi Yukiko, born December 24, 1947) is a Japanese actress and was the wife of Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto from 1971 until his death in the August 1985 Japan Air Lines Flight 123 crash. [1]
Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (b. 1941) Manfred Winkelhock, German racing driver (b. 1951) [32] August 13 – J. Willard Marriott, American entrepreneur, founder of Marriott International (b. 1900) [33] August 14. Marie Bell, French actress and stage director (b. 1900) Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899)
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
"Sadly and prematurely, 43-year-old Kyu Sakamoto was killed on 12 August 1985, when JAL Flight 123, a 747 bound from Haneda Airport in Tokyo to Osaka, lost pieces of its tail sections and spiraled downward nightmarishly for 30 minutes (long enough for some passengers to scribble shaky farewells to their families).