Deaths
- January 4: Shohachi Ishii, wrestler
- January 23: Shōjirō Iida, general
- February 14: Kitsuju Ayabe, general
- February 22: Sadaaki Akamatsu, officer and ace fighter pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy
- March 16: Susumu Kimura, admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy
- May 21: Hiroshi Inagaki, filmmaker
- October 10: Tameichi Hara, Imperial Japanese naval commander
- October 21: Kanjūrō Arashi, actor
- December 28: Nobuzo Tohmatsu, admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)