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One of the last remaining luminaries from the explosion of professional theatre in Canberra during the 1970s has died after complications from lung cancer. He was 91.
The legendary Japanese composer died on March 28th, aged 71 | Asia
One expert says outrageous comedy offers the Japanese 'a kind of safety valve for a very formal society'.
By Damian Flanagan
Transcript minus News report: Japan is being shaken, smashed and scorched, the dawn light revealing the obliteration wrought by the country's worst earthquake. In Miyagi prefecture north of Tokyo, whole villages and towns have been shattered and swept away. Just north of the quake's epicentre, landslides ripped railway lines from their tracks. To the south, trains were tossed off course and upended. Hundreds of people are dead and missing. Near Sendai in northern Japan, the tsunami surged ten kilometres inland. Houses were either torn from their foundations or torn apart. Boats were picked ...