Miyoshi Umeki, a Japanese-born singer and actress who became the first Asian performer to win an Academy Award, for “Sayonara” (1957), distinguished herself onstage in “Flower Drum Song” and played a ...

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Actress Miyoshi Umeki, who won an Oscar for her performance as the doomed wife of an American serviceman in “Sayonara” and later starred in the Broadway musical “Flower Drum Song,” has died of cancer.

Miyoshi Umeki, who took the supporting actress Oscar for “Sayonara” in 1958 to become the first Asian to win a performance Academy Award, died Aug. 28 in Licking, Mo. She was 78. Umeki also starred in ...

Miyoshi Umeki, the first Asian to win an Oscar, has died at a nursing home in Licking, Mo. She was 78. By Julian Ryall, The Associated Press Miyoshi Umeki, the first Asian to win an Oscar, has died at ...

Miyoshi Umeki, a Japanese-born singer and actress who became the first Asian performer to win an Academy Award, for Sayonara (1957), distinguished herself onstage in Flower Drum Song and played a ...

Miyoshi Umeki, the Japanese-born singer and actress who became the first Asian performer to win an Academy Award, for her touching role as Red Buttons’ wife in the 1957 film “Sayonara,” has died. She ...

Miyoshi Umeki, actress: born Otaru, Japan 8 May 1929; married 1958 Frederick W. Opie (marriage dissolved 1967), 1968 Randall Hood (died 1976; one son); died Licking, Missouri 28 August 2007. Miyoshi ...

TOKYO -- Miyoshi Umeki, the first Asian to win an Oscar, died Aug. 28 at a nursing home in Licking, Mo. She was 78. By Julian Ryall, The Associated Press TOKYO — Miyoshi Umeki, the first Asian to win ...

Growing up on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, Miyoshi Umeki was obsessed with American pop music and dreamed of making it to the United States after World War II. She practiced singing with ...