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
Mount Takamagahara
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Mount Takamagahara is a mountain in the Gunma Prefecture of Japan, near Ueno village. It is 1,978.6 metres tall. Takamagahara is the world of the deities of the sky in Japanese mythology.
Kyu Sakamoto
…departing from Tokyo), heading to Osaka for an event. The plane suffered a severe structural failure and decompression before crashing into two ridges of Mount Takamagahara in Ueno, Gunma, a disaster that remains the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history with 520 people killed, including Sakamoto. He was interred…
Mt. Takamagahara