Deaths
- January 3 - Hisayasu Nagata, politician (born 1969)
- March 1 - Takashi Ishimoto, butterfly swimmer (born 1935)
- March 8 - Takahiro Itō, actor and voice actor (born 1987)
- March 25 - Yukio Endo, gymnast (born 1937)
- May 26 - Kaoru Kurimoto, novelist (born 1953)
- June 11 - Sumire, model (born 1987)
- June 13 - Mitsuharu Misawa, wrestler (born 1962)
- June 19 - Tomoji Tanabe, supercentenarian (born 1895)
- June 22 - Jun Maki, copywriter (born 1948)
- June 27 - Nanae Sasaki, athlete (born 1956)
- July 5 - Takeo Doi, psychoanalyst (born 1920)
- July 21 - Yoshinori Kanada, animator (born 1952)
- August 3 - Reiko Ohara, actress (born 1946)
- August 9 - Jasmine You, musician (born 1979)
- August 18 - Hildegard Behrens, German opera singer (born 1937)
- October 4 - Shōichi Nakagawa, politician (born 1953)
- October 17 - Kazuhiko Kato, musician (born 1947)
- October 21 - Yōko Minamida, actress (born 1933)
- November 10 - Hisaya Morishige, actor and comedian (born 1913)
- November 13 - Hideo Den, news presenter and politician (born 1923)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)