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December 25

Tou Tajiri, Mutsuju Yamawaki, and Hama Takebayshi all no recent confirmation alive

Respect for the Aged Day reports were tou tajiri was last confirmed alive on January 25 or somewhere around then, but what about Mutsuji Yamawaki and Hama Takebayshi? I know one of the two passed away, but can't find out which one. Do you know which one passed away or if all three are still alive? Deaths in 2013 (talk) 19:26, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

First that article makes no mention of the claims you assert, and unless you can show these people are otherwise notable you are asking us to violate WP:BLP regarding private, non-notable individuals. If this continues I will take it to ANI. μηδείς (talk) 05:15, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

I mostly agree with μηδείς here. In particular, I don't see why you'll think we can do better than specialised sites. Such sites don't have to worry about BLP and other limitations here and also are full of people with strong interest in this sort of thing and with the experience to track such things. I presume given you're own interest and the fact you're referring to details only covered there (like one of the people possibly having died because there's only one person of that age listed in recent Kyōto records) that you know of such sites. Nil Einne (talk) 12:18, 26 December 2014 (UTC)