Ritsuko Nakayama, pioneer of Japan's bowling boom, dies at 84
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Ritsuko Nakayama, a pioneering female professional bowler who helped ignite the bowling boom of the late 1960s and 1970s in Japan, di
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Ritsuko Nakayama, a pioneering female professional bowler who helped ignite the bowling boom of the late 1960s and 1970s in Japan, di
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