Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa dies at 88. He directed, among others, the Boston Symphony, and was also director of the Vienna State Opera.
Ozawa was born in 1935 in the Chinese province of Manchuria, which was then a Japanese colony. The end of his career was marked by illness, including cancer detected in 2010. "People think I'm not far from death, but I'm going to try with all my might to avoid dying," he joked in 2014, in one of his last appearances before the press.