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Movie producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki passed away in an accident on Sunday afternoon. He was 75. Nishizaki was best known as one of the co-creators of the "Space Battleship Yamato" anime series, along with Leiji Matsumoto (72).

At around 12:35pm on November 7, the Coast Guard received word that Nishizaki had fallen into the water from a ship named ( Read more... )

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Takashi Yoshida, the 48-year-old CEO and president of Warner Music Japan, suddenly passed away on the afternoon of October 7. Some sources are reporting that Yoshida hanged himself in his own home, and police are currently treating the incident as a suicide.

Yoshida's wife reportedly discovered him upon returning home from shopping. No suicide note ( Read more... )

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