HomeDecember 2014JapanTakeshi Taketsuru May 2, 2015 Takeshi Taketsuru Japanese whisky distiller (Nikka) Died on Wednesday December 17th 2014 More from JapanTatsuya Hori, Japanese politician, governor of Hokkaido, lung cancer, dies at age 90 of cancerShinichiro Tawada, Japanese linguist, dies at age 78Takahiro Fujiwara, Japanese voice actor, dies at age 43Koji Suzuki, Japanese writer, dies at age 68Kenji Ohba, Japanese actor and stuntman, dies at age 71Yuji Ohno, Japanese musician and composer, dies at age 84Kazuhiro Ninomiya, Japanese judoka, dies at age 79Juliet Winters Carpenter, American translator, dies at age 77Gordon Snell, public figure, dies at age 93Katsumi Miyaji, Japanese rugby union player and coach, dies at age 85More from December 17, 2014Ryan Bolden, American baseball player, dies at age 23Chan Kwok-Hung, Chinese cinematographer (Fly Me to Polaris, dies at age 51Stephen Youssef Doueihi, Lebanese-born American Maronite Catholic hierarch, dies at age 87Clarke Fraser, Canadian medical geneticist, dies at age 94Fritz Rudolf Fries, German writer, dies at age 79Neil James, English rugby league player, dies at age 53Dieter Grau, German-born American rocket scientist, dies at age 101Richard C. Hottelet, American broadcast journalist, dies at age 97Stephen J. Kopp, American educator, dies at age 63Oleh Lysheha, Ukrainian poet, dies at age 65 Tags 17 December 2014 2014-12-17 December 17 December 2014 Japan Other Takeshi Taketsuru ←Ivan Vekić Lowell Steward→