Diana Yukawa

Diana Yukawa (ダイアナ 湯川, Daiana Yukawa) is an Anglo-Japanese solo violinist. She has had two solo albums with BMG Japan, one of which opened to #1. Diana Yukawa was born in Tokyo, Japan to English ballet dancer Susanne Bayly and Japanese banker Akihisa Yukawa one month after her father died in the 1985 Japan Airlines Flight 123 disaster. Yukawa has lived in the United Kingdom since she was 2 months old and began learning violin when she was 5 years old. Because Diana was born after her father’s death, his name was excluded from her birth certificate until July 2009. Yukawa played during a memorial service for the Japan Airlines Flight 123 victims on August 12, 2009. Her Japanese debut album La Campanella, released in 2000 on BMG RCA,...