Japan Airlines Flight 123 - Passengers

Passengers

The flight was around the Obon holiday period in Japan, when many Japanese people make yearly trips to their hometowns or resorts. Twenty-one non-Japanese boarded the flight. The four survivors, all female, were seated on the left side and towards the middle of seat rows 54–60, in the rear of the aircraft.

The survivors were:

• Yumi Ochiai (落合 由美, Ochiai Yumi?), an off-duty JAL flight attendant, age 25, who was jammed between seats;
• Hiroko Yoshizaki (吉崎 博子, Yoshizaki Hiroko?), a 34-year-old woman and her 8-year-old daughter Mikiko Yoshizaki (吉崎 美紀子, Yoshizaki Mikiko?), who were trapped in an intact section of the fuselage;
• Keiko Kawakami (川上 慶子, Kawakami Keiko?) a 12-year-old girl, who was found wedged between branches in a tree. Kawakami's parents and younger sister died in the crash, and she was the last survivor to be released from hospitalization. She had been treated at the Matsue Red Cross Hospital (松江赤十字病院 Matsue Sekijūji Byōin, Japanese article) in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture before her release on Friday, November 22, 1985.

Among the dead were singer Kyu Sakamoto and Japanese banker Akihisa Yukawa, the father of solo violinist Diana Yukawa.