if only... Japan...

[danny burstein]

[polygon]

NES and SNES creator Masayuki Uemura dies at 78

Uemura held a position at Ritsumeikan University until his death

The lead architect of the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo
Entertainment System, Masayuki Uemura, has died. The Ritsumeikan Center
for Game Studies at Ritsumeikan University announced Uemura's death on
Thursday, saying he died Dec. 6 at the age of 78.

Uemura first joined Nintendo in 1972, and worked with the company to build
light-gun games, helping to create the predecessor to Duck Hunt. After
moving to Nintendo's new R&D2 team, he headed up the squad's home
console initiative - a mandate from then-president Hiroshi Yamauchi.

Uemura began development on the Famicom (the Japanese name for the NES) in
1981 in an attempt to bring the arcade to player's living rooms. R&D2
launched the Famicom in 1983, and Uemura's team built its successor, the
SNES (known as the Super Famicom in Japan), for its 1990 release.
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rest:
https://www.polygon.com/22825994/nes-snes-famicom-creator-masayuki-uemura-death

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[Richard de Give]

Was his passing announced before after the markets closed? The broader-based TOPIX took a major fall Friday, closing at 1,975.48, down 15.31 points or 0.77 percent. Back to you Thalia.

Rich

[danny burstein]

Note I've seen reports that have her first and last
name both forwards and backwards. Or something.

[Variety]

Kanda Sayaka, Japanese Actor, Dead in Hotel Fall at 35

Japanese actor and musician Kanda Sayaka died on Saturday evening in
Sapporo, Hokkaido. She was 35.

Her sudden death was confirmed by her agency and on her official website
which removed all other content and replaced it with a notice.
......
Kanda was found unconscious, in a pool of blood, in an outdoors part of
the hotel in Sapporo, where she was staying. She appeared to have fallen
six floors from her 22nd floor room. She was pronounced dead after being
transported to hospital.
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rest:
https://variety.com/2021/film/actors/kanda-sayaka-dead-dies-japanese-actor-1235139397

She was a very prolific voice-over actor

[Richard de Give]

This really rocked the broader-based TOPIX, which closed trading at 1,941.33, down 43.14 points or 2.17 percent. Back to you, Thalia.