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 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 ...
TOKYO (Hollywood Reporter) - Actress Miyoshi Umeki, the first Asian to win an Oscar, has died in a Missouri nursing home. She was 78. Sign up here. The Japanese native, who won the Academy Award for ...