Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Tokyo, Yotsuya, Kantō, Japan

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Rilke suffered ulcerous sores in his mouth, pain troubled his stomach and intestines and he struggled with increasingly low spirits.
(29 December 1926)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3359 births, 3910 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2071 other events about 5713 people in 6416 places until today.

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Yotsuya, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.

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Wednesday 14th of January 1925 (+) — Poet, writer and actor Yukio Mishima is born
Tuesday 8th of April 1986 (-) — Pop idol Yukiko Okada commits suicide by jumping out of a 7th floor window of the Sun Music Agency building
Two hours before Okada was found with a slashed wrist in her gas-filled apartment crouching in a closet and crying. Okada's death resulted in many copycat suicides in Japan, soon christened with the neologism 'Yukiko Syndrome'.