1979 in Japan - Deaths

Deaths

  • January 12: Shunsaku Kudō, Imperial Japanese Navy officer
  • January 29: Yusuke Hagihara, astronomer
  • February 24: Yoshie Shiratori, murderer
  • March 25: Akinoumi Setsuo, sumo wrestler
  • March 26: Iwao Matsuda, senior officer in the Imperial Japanese army
  • April 17: Yukio Tsuda, football player
  • May 23: Hiroshi Ohshita, professional baseball player
  • May 29: Eddie Imazu, art director
  • July 8: Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, physicist
  • July 20: Shōji Yamagishi, photography critic, curator, and magazine editor
  • July 27: Sōkichi Takagi, admiral and political figure
  • August 24: Shigeharu Nakano, author and Communist Party politician
  • August 25: Sōgen Asahina, Rinzai zen master
  • September 17: Mitsuru Yoshida, author and naval officer
  • September 30: Shiina Etsusaburo, foreign minister of Japan from 1964 to 1966
  • October 22: Mieko Kamiya, psychiatrist
  • December 25: Kenji Tomiki, aikido and judo teacher

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