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Mr. Yamamoto deceased on Dec 20th, 2017. The title should probably be noted "(2017)

That would be misleading given that it was 17 days ago.

It's already misleading because the title made me think it happened today or at least this year.

The clear thing would have been to use the full date.

The purpose of these year doodads is to show something isn't recent news and how unrecent it is. This is recent news.