Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of the vernacular Asahi Shimbun.
I always find it hard when people of my own generation die. But when I heard that Kabuki actor Nakamura Kanzaburo had died on Dec. 5, I felt devastated. Nakamura, a leading light in the Kabuki world and one of the greatest entertainers of our time, was only 57. You might say he leaves behind a full house, an audience who, like me, believes he departed too early.