Japan Air Lines Flight 123
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Japan Air Lines Flight 123 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Tokyo to Osaka, Japan. On the evening of Monday, August 12, 1985, the Boeing 747 flying the route suffered a severe structural
JA8119, the aircraft involved in the accident, pictured in March 1985
Wreckage at the crash site
Flight 123 accident monument in Fujioka
Cenotaph of Flight 123 at Osutaka Ridge
Kyu Sakamoto
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Hisashi "Kyu" Sakamoto, legally registered as Hisashi Ōshima since 1956, was a Japanese singer and actor.
Japan Air Lines Flight 123
…in the crash; and Keiko Kawakami, a 12-year-old girl whose parents and sister also died in the crash. Among the victims were Japanese singer and actor Kyu Sakamoto, and banker Akihisa Yukawa, the father-to-be of violinist and composer Diana Yukawa, born a month after the accident. The flight connected two of the…
Kyu Sakamoto with his mother, Iku, in 1951