OTOINEPPU, Hokkaido--“Fukuro” (Owl), a 6-meter-high totem pole created ... Two years before his death from bone marrow cancer in 1989 at age 57, the artist was awarded the rare honor of ...

Initially thinking it was a joke, she then realised something was wrong and found her husband with bone sticking out of his leg and blood pouring out from his swollen face. “When she asked who ...