Akiko Nagashima, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese businessperson (1943-2007)
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Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
About Akiko Nagashima
- Akiko Nagashima (January 5, 1943 - September 18, 2007) was a Japanese businesswoman and the wife of former Yomiuri Giants hitter and team manager Shigeo Nagashima and mother of actor and sports commentator Kazushige Nagashima. She worked on a project related to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics where she met Shigeo.
- They married in January 1965, and she had their first son, Kazushige, a year later.
- She subsequently had three other children including Masaoki, now a race car driver, and Mina, a newscaster.
- In 2002, she was selected to be the spokesperson for a government program dealing with the effects of global warming.
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