THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 3, 2021 at 15:53 JST
From left, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Kunie Tanaka and Tomoko Nakajima at a September 2001 news conference to announce production of the final episode of the "Kita no Kuni kara" TV drama series (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Actor Kunie Tanaka, who became a household name playing an awkward but devoted father in a long-running TV drama series, died of natural causes on March 24. He was 88. [Read More]
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