During the final year of World War II in the Pacific, close to 4,000 airmen from Japan's Imperial Army and Navy would willingly give their lives as kamikaze. Literally translated, kamikaze means ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shimada Yoko, the Japanese actor who earned a Golden Globe for her role as Mariko in 1980s miniseries ‘Shogun,’ has died, age 69.

Yoko Shimada – the Japanese actress best known to worldwide audiences for her Golden Globe and Emmy-winning role as Mariko in the 1980s TV miniseries Shogun – has died at age 69. Japanese news ...

Japanese actor Shimada Yoko, who earned a Golden Globe for her role as Mariko in the 1980s television miniseries “Shogun”, passed away aged 69, reports ‘Variety’. Japanese media announced that Shimada ...

Naomi Shimada knows the power of the social media better than most. The model, activist, and now author has spent the last decade building her empire online. From her 77.4 thousand followers on ...

Tom Shimada of Hilton Head Island stands for a portrait on one of the tennis courts near his home Friday in Palmetto Hall on Hilton Head Island. Shimada returned to the United States on Monday after ...

The Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery have announced that Patricia Buckley Ebrey, a leading scholar of Chinese civilization, will receive the 2010 Shimada Prize for her ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When Soji Shimada was in elementary school in Tokyo, he used to spend lunch breaks reading out his detective stories ...