Yasunori Shimura, known professionally as Ken Shimura, was a Japanese comedian.
10 Facts About Ken Shimura
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Ken Shimura started his career as an assistant to the comedy band The Drifters, led by Chosuke Ikariya.
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Ken Shimura appeared as members of the group on popular comedy shows that gained massive popularity from the 1970s to the 1980s.
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Ken Shimura became known in 1974, replacing Chu Arai in the famous comedy group The Drifters.
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The rapport Ken Shimura had with Cha Kato, a member of Higashimurayama, kept them together on television.
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Ken Shimura's show, Ken Shimura Daijoubuda, a satire of modern Japanese society, aired from 1987 to 1993.
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Ken Shimura was hospitalized for severe pneumonia on March 20th 2020; he lost consciousness after being anesthetized and hooked up to a ventilator on the following day.
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Ken Shimura was the first Japanese tarento to have his COVID-19 diagnosis made public during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan.
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Ken Shimura was slated to carry the Olympic torch through part of Tokyo prior to the 2020 Tokyo games.
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Ken Shimura died on March 29th 2020 at the National Center for Global Health and Medicine in Shinjuku, Tokyo.