{"id":41330,"date":"2018-08-17T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/324774"},"modified":"2018-08-17T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T13:30:00","slug":"tekken-and-yakuza-voice-actor-unsho-ishizuka-has-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/17\/tekken-and-yakuza-voice-actor-unsho-ishizuka-has-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Tekken and Yakuza voice actor Unsho Ishizuka has passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese anime and video game voice actor Unsho\u00a0Ishizuka has passed away at the age of 67.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ishizuka voiced a variety of characters in a number of notable video games, including Heihachi Mishima in <em>Tekken Tag Tournament 2<\/em> and <em>Tekken 7<\/em>, Tetsuo Tamashiro in <em>Yakuza 3<\/em>, and <em>Hojo Ujiyasu<\/em> in Samurai Warriors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also appeared in popular anime shows, and some will know him as the Japanese voice of Professor Oak in Pokemon, Jet Black in Cowboy Bebop, and Van Hohenheim in Full Metal Alchemist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The veteran actor had been receiving medial care for\u00a0esophagus cancer, but according to a statement from\u00a0his talent management agency Aoni (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bk2128\/status\/1030310028295598081\">translated by Twitter user\u00a0BlackKite)<\/a>, no treatment proved effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese anime and video game voice actor Unsho\u00a0Ishizuka has passed away at the age of 67.\u00a0 Ishizuka voiced a variety of characters in a number of notable video games, including Heihachi Mishima in Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and Tekken 7, Tetsuo Tamashiro in Yakuza 3, and Hojo Ujiyasu in Samurai Warriors.\u00a0 He also appeared in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}