When we see someone onscreen, we always see them smiling and living their best life. Outsiders always think that celebrities' lives are filled with happiness and glamour as they have all the worldly things one needs to live a good life. The death of any person you know or see regularly is always tragic, but worse is an unnatural or untimely death of a celebrity that we look forward to. Many Japanese stars didn't live a long life due to various reasons like suicide, accidents, health issue, etc. So, here is a list of some Japanese celebrities who passed away young:
1. Yukiko Okada
Yukiko Okada was a singer and actress; she won a national show at the age of 15 and released her first song in 1984. She was very popular in the mid-1980s. She died at the very young age of 18 by suicide when her body with a slitted wrist got found in her gas-filled apartment on April 10, 1986.
2. Izumi Sakai
Sachiko Kamachi, better known by her stage name Izumi Sakai was a singer and songwriter. She was the permanent member of a famous pop band named Zard. She had cervical cancer and got admitted to the hospital for a long time. Her death was an accident as she slipped from hospital stairs during one of her regular walks and left the world at 40.
3. Yutaka Ozaki
Next on our list is a musician, Yutaka Ozaki, born in 1965. Yutaka got ranked at 23 in the list of top 100 musicians. He died under suspenseful conditions as he was found intoxicated and unconscious on the streets of Tokyo. Filled his lungs with fluid, and he took his last breath in a hospital at the age of 27.
4. Ai Iijima
During her peak, she was a writer, actress, activist, and famous face in media. She was born in Tokyo in 1972 and has appeared in many favorite TV Shows and Movies. She passed away in December 2008. At the age of 30, due to widespread Pneumonia, she was found dead in her home.
5. Kyu Sakamoto
He was a singer and actor and was famous on the international level. One of his songs sold over 13 million copies. He died at the age of 43 in 1985 due to a plane crash. His death made the Japanese audience very sad.
6. Karin Maruyama
Another famous face of the music industry, Karin Maruyama, was just 22 when she lost her life. She was suffering from Lung Cancer for a long time and had seven cases of malignant brain tumor removal surgeries but lost her life after a long battle with this deadly disease on May 22, 2015.
7. Daigo Kashino
Daigo Kashino was an actor and used to take part in theatre activities. He died after he was stabbed in the stomach by a sword during a rehearsal practice of a samurai show. It is still not confirmed whether it was a planned murder or an unfortunate incident. He died in 2016 when he was 33 years old.
8. Sei Ashina
Sei Ashina was a Japanese actress and was born in the Fukushima city of Japan on November 22, 1983. She was found dead in her Tokyo apartment on September 14, 2020. The reason for her death was suicide, as confirmed by the police.
9. Haruma Miura
The next celebrity on our list is Haruma Miura; he was an actor and singer who rose to instant fame after starring in a movie named Koizora. He also took his own life, as his hanged body was found in his house when he was just 30 and at a good position in his career.
10. Yuko Takeuchi
The last actress on our list is Yuko Takeuchi, who has been a part of many famous shows and movies. Her dead body was received from her home in Tokyo and was declared dead in a hospital. She was 40 at that time.
