Kyu Sakamoto
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Hisashi "Kyu" Sakamoto, legally registered as Hisashi Ōshima since 1956, was a Japanese singer and actor.
Kyu Sakamoto with his mother, Iku, in 1951
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
Kyu Sakamoto
…He was also the first Japanese artist to have a number one single on the Australian singles chart. Sakamoto died on 12 August 1985 in the crash of Japan Air Lines Flight 123. Sakamoto was born on 10 December 1941, in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, to Hiroshi Sakamoto, a cargo tender officer, and his second wife, Iku. The…
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