JAL Crash Baby Wants Your Money

[Mulboyne]

Diana Yukawa
MDN: Young violinist calls for people to invest in her borrowed ancient violin

An English music dealer loaned her the violin last year after noticing her talent, but interest in the violin, whose value is increasing year by year, is high, and the dealer wants it back this month.
Because of this, Yukawa has made a call for people to help her financially so she can keep the instrument, which she says is part of her.
"It would be good even if we could get an emergency loan so that the loan period could be extended," a representative for Yukawa said. Telephone inquiries about investments in the violin can be made (in Japanese) at (042) 788-4518.

The original Maiinichi article mentions that Yukawa became known because her father was killed in the 1985 JAL crash but the story is a little more interesting than that.
Time Magazine: A pair of half-Japanese sisters whose father died in a 1985 plane crash step up their fight for compensation
Independent via Alexanderharris.com: Sisters win payout
Mr Yukawa's Japanese wife had suffered a brain injury in a car crash. He started an affair with an English dancer in London and had two children with her. When he died in the crash, JAL did not offer compensation to the two girls because their mother was not married to Yukawa. JAL even suggested that the children might not be his - Diana was born a few months after the crash. It took a visit to Japan 16 years later and a lot of international press coverage before JAL relented.

[Mulboyne]

Her sister Cassie looks to be doing pretty well as part of Asian babe piano duo "Yukawa Chan"


Cassie Yukawa and Rosey Chan: Beauty and the beat

The first major public sighting of Cassie Yukawa and Rosey Chan was at the Tsunami concert at the Royal Albert Hall. These two women delivered Lutoslawski with dazzling panache. Two weeks before they starred in Camerata Wales's inaugural concert at the Chelsea Festival. They may not have achieved a high definition, but they created persuasive dialogue with a lovely joint cantabile. Moreover, with their tumbling manes, six-inch stilettos, and skimpy gauze frocks, they might have come straight out of the fashion pages
...How Asian do they feel? Chan: "Though I speak with my parents in Chinese, I feel very English. But though you can take a girl out of China, you can't take China out of the girl." Yukawa's reply reflects a more interesting journey. Her banker father had wanted to be a classical pianist, but he was killed when a passenger jet crashed into a mountain 20 years ago. "I was very much his girl, and my memories of him are very clear," she says. "When I was 15 I went on a personal journey to try to discover why that mysterious crash had happened. I talked to experts and engineers, and climbed the mountain, a beautiful place with lots of waterfalls. When we got to the crash site I ran on ahead, but began hyperventilating when I found the sign for the place where his body was found, and the reality of having lost him sank in. Now I realise I was using that trauma as a way of masking other questions which needed to be answered. I'm past that now." She gives Chan a shamefaced grin: "She puts up with a lot of this from me. But I am a naturally inquisitive person."

Yukawa Chan site

[Mulboyne]

Asahi: A summer lament in memory of JAL crash victims in '85
KARATSU, Saga Prefecture--For 19 years, Japanese bell crickets have been carried by hand to the mountain site in Gunma Prefecture of a 1985 Japan Airlines crash, which claimed 520 lives in the nation's worst air disaster. The people who do this believe the chirp of the crickets may provide a measure of comfort to the souls of the dead...more...

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"It took a visit to Japan 16 years later and a lot of international press coverage before JAL relented."

Shame on JAL...

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