Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentShimada Yoko, the Japanese actor who earned a Golden Globe for her role as Mariko in 1980s miniseries ‘Shogun,’ has died, age 69.Japanese media reported that she died of multiple organ failure due to colorectal cancer, in a Tokyo hospital on Monday (July 25, 2022).Born in 1953 in Kumamoto, a city on the southern island of Kyushu, Shimada made her TV debut in the 1970 drama “Osanazuma.” She became popular in the 1970s playing pure and virtuous types on TV and in films, including the 1974 hit “The Castle of Sand.”Despite limited English-language skills, she had one of the few English-speaking roles in “Shogun” when she was cast in the role of Mariko (aka Lady Toda Buntaro), the love interest of Richard Chamberlain’s shipwrecked British navigator turned samurai. Nevertheless, her portrayal as an aristocratic woman who dies saving her foreign lover’s life earned Shimada her first and only Golden Globe.
Scots boy, 4, dies after drowning while on family holiday in Mauritius
08.07.2022 - 10:25 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A Scots toddler has died after drowning in a swimming pool while on holiday with his family in Mauritius. Four-year-old Ozair Ali began having difficulty breathing while in the Lux Hotel's swimming pool in Belle Mare.
His father noticed and emergency services raced to the scene and the child was rushed to the Dr Bruno Cheong Hospital. However, despite the best efforts of medics, he died there on Tuesday, June 28, the Scottish Daily Express reports.
Ozair's burial took place at Cumbernauld cemetery but his funeral was held at Glasgow Central Mosque on Friday, July 1.
In a tribute on social media, his father wrote: The boy’s father wrote on social media: “He was the sweetest, sweetest boy in the world, with the right dose of cheekiness and love. He would instantly light up a room and drew everyone towards him with his loving personality.
“In his short four-and-a-half years, he has given us so many memories which we will cherish everyday and I will take the sorrow of his departure to my grave. Your baba waits for the day we are reunited.”
The Mauritius Police Force said in a statement: “He was swimming in the hotel’s pool in company of his family members, when at about [2pm] his father noticed that he was having difficulty breathing. He was immediately removed to a safe place.
“All the emergency agencies attended within good [time]. The cause of death was, after an autopsy, certified to be ‘asphyxia, due to drowning’.”
A spokesperson for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said the family were being supported after they flew his body home to Scotland.
They added: “We are supporting the family of a British child who died in Mauritius. Our thoughts are with the family at this difficult time.”
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