Tatsuzo Shimaoka, 88, Master of Pottery, Is Dead
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Mr. Shimaoka was designated a âliving national treasureâ in Japan for his mastery of his craft.
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Kon Ichikawa, the Japanese director who married artistic technique with humanistic spirit in such films as the Oscar-nominated "Harp of Burma" and "Tokyo Olympiad," has died. He was 92.
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TOKYO  - Japanese actor Tetsuro Tamba,   best known internationally for playing dapper spymaster Tiger   Tanaka in the 1967 James Bond picture "You Only Live Twice,"   has died in Tokyo. He was 84.
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TOKYO -- Every morning for the last three months, Yuko Tojo has prayed at a war shrine for Japan's fallen soldiers, including her grandfather, General Hideki Tojo, the executed World War II prime minister who ordered the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Julien Gracq, a celebrated French writer known for surrealism and solitude and for having turned down France's top literary prize, has died, hospital officials said Sunday. He was 97.
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The world's best-known mime artist, Marcel Marceau, has died, France Info radio said on Sunday, saying his family had informed it of his death.
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German boxing great Max Schmeling dies at the age of 99.
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An executive allegedly involved in a bid-rigging scam that has been linked to the suicide of Japan's agriculture minister leaped to his death Tuesday, officials said. The deaths have added to the pressure on a government struggling against a series of scandals.
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Jacques Derrida, one of France's best-known philosophers and the founder of the deconstructionist school, has died of cancer at the age of 74, his entourage said.
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Controversial former world chess legend Bobby Fischer has died aged 64, Icelandic media report.
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Marcel Marceau, who revived the art of mime and brought poetry to silence, has died, French media reported Sunday. He was 84.
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Shu Uemura, a beautician who parlayed  success as a Hollywood make-up artist into an international  cosmetics brand under his name, has died aged 79.
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Sembene Ousmane, the father of Senegalese cinema and one of the pioneers of the art in Africa, died at his home over the weekend after a long illness. He was 84.
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Shu Uemura, a beautician who parlayed success as a Hollywood make-up artist into an international cosmetics brand under his name, has died aged 79.
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German boxing legend Max Schmeling, one of the greatest heavyweight fighters of all time, has died at age 99.
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The examination of the chemical makeup of the paintings found that some of the pigments used in the paints were not commercially available until long after Jackson Pollock died.
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Controversial former world chess legend Bobby Fischer, famous for a Cold War showdown, has died aged 64.