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Popular Japanese comedian dies from the coronavirus

by Associated Press
| March 30, 2020 12:03 AM

TOKYO (AP) — Popular Japanese comedian Ken Shimura, who drew inspiration from the American comedic icon Jerry Lewis, has died from the coronavirus, becoming Japan's first known celebrity victim of the disease. He was 70.

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