"Kiharu Nakamura - Japanese geisha girl who moved to the U.S. and became a well-known entertainer, mingling with such stars as Charlie Chaplin and Babe Ruth, who taught traditional Japanese music and dance and appeared on numerous TV talk shows, and whose autobiography The Memoir of a Tokyo-born Geisha was published in 1983 and became a best-seller, died Jan. 5 in New York City at age 90." . . . . .