February 19, 2016 Writers Yūko Tsushima Japanese author Died on Thursday February 18th 2016 Other writersNikolay Tsaturyan dead at age 81, Armenian theatre directorKrzysztof Piesiewicz dead at age 80, public figureZoya Boguslavskaya dead at age 102, Russian poet and writerHerb Wharton dead at age 89, public figureVladimir Molchanov dead at age 75, Russian television host and journalistBarry W. Blaustein dead at age 72, American screenwriter and film director, pancreatic cancerBassek Ba Kobhio dead at age 69, Cameroonian writer and filmmakerRex Reed dead at age 87, American film critic and journalistAtaur Rahman Bangladeshi actor dead at age 84Ralph Ottey Jamaican-born British author and World War II veteran dead at age 102More from JapanKoji Suzuki Japanese writer dead at age 68Kenji Ohba Japanese actor and stuntman dead at age 71Yuji Ohno dead at age 84, Japanese musician and composerKazuhiro Ninomiya Japanese judoka dead at age 79Juliet Winters Carpenter American translator dead at age 77Gordon Snell public figure dead at age 93Katsumi Miyaji Japanese rugby union player and coach dead at age 85Adrienne Staples New Zealand politician, mayor of South Wairarapa and member of the Greater Wellington Regional Council dead at age 69Kenji Gokenya Japanese politician dead at age 87Seigō Tsuchida Japanese politician, mayor of Higashine dead at age 82More from February 18, 2016Abdul Rashid KhanArumugam VijiaratnamAngela RaiolaPantelis PantelidisSophia HawthorneCherussery Zainuddeen MusliyarPaul GordonJohnny MillerBrendan HealyGiorgio Tinazzi Tags 18 February 2016 2016-02-18 February 18 February 2016 Japan Tsushima Writers Yuko ←Brendan Healy Tamerlan Aguzarov→