page_title: 2019 in Japan
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 2019 in Japan / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: English: Japanologist Donald Keene at his Tokyo home in October 2002, while signing a copy of his Emperor Meiji's biography and being interviewed for Letras Libres.
context_page_description: Events in the year 2019 in Japan.
caption: Donald Keene
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