Kyu Sakamoto was a Japanese popular singer was already famous when his hit song "Sukiyaki" was a hit in
Japan and topped the Billboard pop charts in the United States in 1963 -- to date the
 first and only song sung entirely in Japanese to do so. Kyu worked very hard for old, young and handicapped
 people in Japan. In 1985, Kyu Sakamoto was killed in the crash of JAL flight 123, a 747, when a rear pressure bulkhead
blew out at approximately 13,000 feet. Before the doomed aircraft hit the ground, he managed 
to write a farewell note to his wife.     This aircraft is dedicated to him!