TOKYO — Miyoshi Umeki, the first Asian to win an Oscar, died Aug. 28 at a nursing home in Licking, Mo. She was 78. Umeki won the Academy Award for best supporting actress in 1957 after playing ...

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 ...

Miyoshi Umeki, the first Asian to win an Oscar, has died at a nursing home in Licking, Mo. She was 78. Umeki, who died Aug. 28, won the Academy Award for best supporting actress after playing ...

Miyoshi Umeki, the first Asian to win an Academy Award for her role in the 1957 romantic drama Sayonara, has died of cancer.. She was 78. Umeki began her career as a nightclub singer in Japan and ...

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.

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.

In 1958, Miyoshi Umeki won the Academy Award for her supporting role in 'Sayonara.' ... Sophia Hutchins, Caitlyn Jenner's manager and I Am Cait star, dies at 29 in ATV accident.

Miyoshi Umeki, the Japanese-born ... performer to win an Academy Award, for her touching role as Red Buttons’ wife in the 1957 movie “Sayonara,” has died. She was 78. Ms. Umeki, ...

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 ...

Miyoshi Umeki, who was the first Asian actor to win an Academy Award and later earned a Tony nomination for her work in the musicalFlower Drum Song, died Aug. 28.