Growing up on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, Miyoshi Umeki was obsessed with American pop music and dreamed of making it to the United States after World War II. She practiced singing with ...

TOKYO -- Miyoshi Umeki, the first Asian to win an Oscar, died Aug. 28 at a nursing home in Licking, Mo. She was 78. By Julian Ryall, The Associated Press TOKYO — Miyoshi Umeki, the first Asian to win ...

Miyoshi Umeki, the first Asian to win an Oscar, has died at a nursing home in Licking, Mo. She was 78. By Julian Ryall, The Associated Press Miyoshi Umeki, the first Asian to win an Oscar, has died at ...

Miyoshi Umeki, who died August 28 at 78, was nominated for a Tony Award as Mei-Li the mail order “picture bride” in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Flower Drum Song” (1958). She also won an Oscar for best ...

Actress Miyoshi Umeki, who won an Oscar for her performance as the doomed wife of an American serviceman in “Sayonara” and later starred in the Broadway musical “Flower Drum Song,” has died of cancer.

Miyoshi Umeki, who took the supporting actress Oscar for “Sayonara” in 1958 to become the first Asian to win a performance Academy Award, died Aug. 28 in Licking, Mo. She was 78. Umeki also starred in ...

TOKYO (Hollywood Reporter) - Actress Miyoshi Umeki, the first Asian to win an Oscar, has died in a Missouri nursing home. She was 78. Sign up here. The Japanese native, who won the Academy Award for ...

Miyoshi Umeki was a Japanese-American actress and singer who smashed prejudices when she became the first Asian actress to win an Oscar. Then she smashed expectations when she threw it in the bin. How ...

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