Suicide Weekend Pt. 2
Tokyo 2020 Olympics Senior Official Reportedly Commits Suicide by Jumping in Front of Metro Train
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05:17 GMT 07.06.2021
(updated 05:53 GMT 07.06.2021
The possible motives are still unknown.
A senior Japanese Olympic official has reportedly died after throwing himself in the path of an underground train, Nippon Television reports, citing Tokyo metropolitan police sources.
Police are now investigating the possible motives why 52-year-old Yasushi Moriya would have committed suicide, according to the broadcaster.
January 2021, Japanese Health Ministry reported there was a spike in suicide cases for the first time over a decade. According to the officials, 20,919 people died by suicide in 2020 which was up 3.7% from the previous year. In particular, women and children took their own lives at higher rates. Scientists and experts said at the time that the COVID-19 pandemic was one of the major contributors to the problem.
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Japan Olympic official dies after being hit by train amid growing resistance to games
By Sarah Harvey
59 minutes ago [5am EST. 6/7/21]
A senior official at the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) jumped in
front of an underground train in an apparent suicide on Monday morning, private broadcaster Nippon Television said, citing Tokyo metropolitan police sources.
https://www.standard.co.uk/topic/japanese-olympic-committee
Tokyo metro
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The police are investigating the details surrounding the death of the official, Yasushi Moriya, 52, the television network said. The JOC is gathering information on the incident, a committee representative told Reuters.
The death comes amid growing resistance to the Olympics.
At parliament, opposition lawmakers on Monday grilled Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and cabinet ministers over going ahead with the Games despite worries that holding such a big sporting event could further spread coronavirus infections.
Japan has been "cornered" into holding the Games despite public opposition during the pandemic, one of Japan's sporting heroes and a member of the local Olympic committee said earlier.
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Top government officials repeatedly said that the government would continue to work on coronavirus measures for a "safe and secure" Games, and that a decision on domestic spectators would be made this month.
"Taking infection control measures for athletes and Games officials so athletes from the world can safely participate and to protect our people's lives and health, I think that is the premise of holding (the Olympics)," Suga told lawmakers.
In a Yomiuri survey conducted June 4-6, 50 per cent of respondents said the Games would happen this summer; 26 per cent said they would occur without spectators. That is higher than 48 per cent of those polled saying the event would be cancelled.
But most of the respondents in the same poll said virus measures for Olympics athletes and participants are not enough, while public support for the Suga administration hit their lowest level, at 37 per cent.
About 3,500 out of over 40,000 "city volunteers" recruited by regional governments for the Olympics have pulled out, NHK reported. That adds to 10,000 volunteers had already withdrawn, according to the organisers.
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A SENIOR Japanese Olympic Committee official has reportedly taken his own life in Tokyo
TOKYO TRAGEDY
A SENIOR Japanese Olympic Committee official has reportedly taken his own life in Tokyo.
Yasushi Moriya, 52, is understood to have jumped in front of an underground train at around 9.30am on Monday morning.
According to News24, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department are treating the tragedy as suicide and investigating the incident.
It took place at the Nakanobu Station on the Toei Asakusa Line in Shinagawa Ward.
Moriya is alleged to have stepped off the platform in front of the train.
He was identified from his ID card.
Emergency services took him to hospital but his passing was confirmed two hours later.
Moriya was the director of the accounting department for the Japanese Olympic Committee.
The Games are set to get underway on July 23 and finish on August 8.
Tokyo 2020 bosses insist the Olympics WILL go ahead as planned next month despite the Covid chaos.
https://twnews.co.uk/gb-news/senior-olympic-official-yasushi-moriya-dies-after-jumping-in-front-of-underground-train-in-tokyo