Word: yukawa
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...anniversary happens to fall during the holiday of Obon, when the souls of the dead are said to return home. Crowds of mourners scale this mountain on this day every year to remember the disaster. They all fall silent as Diana Yukawa, 15, picks up her violin. She shuts her eyes and plays a tune by the singer Kyu Sakamoto, who also died in the crash. The song topped charts around the world in 1963 (in the U.S., it was called Sukiyaki) and is popular again in Japan thanks to the plaintive rendition Diana plays in sold-out concerts...
...Though much of Japan knows the sad story of how Diana Yukawa was orphaned, few are aware of the more complicated side of the tale. She and her mother and sister never asked for financial compensation from JAL and Boeing, the U.S. maker of the plane, until a few years ago. (Batches of compensation, worth a reported $300 million, were given to families of other victims.) Dissatisfied with negotiations, the two sisters traveled to Japan from their home in London last month not only to pay tribute to their father but also to announce they may sue. "We have waited...
...saga began in 1978, when Bayly, then 21 and a ballet student, met Yukawa, a London-based executive for Sumitomo Bank. They fell in love, though Yukawa, then 49, had two grown sons and a wife, who was confined to a hospital with brain damage after a car accident. When Yukawa was reassigned to Tokyo, he brought along Bayly and their newborn daughter Cassie...
...Bayly remembers Aug. 12, 1985. Eight months pregnant and jittery, she pleaded with Yukawa not to take a last-minute business trip to Osaka. He placated her over a boxed sushi lunch. "We walked together to Cassie's ballet school," Bayly recalls. "He kissed me, patted my stomach and said: 'Take care of my last creation.'" A few hours later, the TV flashed news of the crash...
...Akihisa Yukawa left no will; he had informed his parents but not his sons or wife about his second family. The wealthy Yukawa clan offered Bayly a sum of about $400,000 on condition that she hide the existence of her daughters and forfeit any claim to the family estate. Secrecy meant she could not apply for compensation from JAL. Shocked, grieving and nursing a newborn, Bayly signed. Back in London, they lived on the payoff and with some clandestine help from Yukawa's mother...