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Senior Japan Olympic official hit by train, dies in suspected suicide
The 52-year-old man was hit by the Toei Asakusa Line subway train at Nakanobu Station at around 9:20 a.m., they said, with just over a month to go before the opening of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
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Women wait to board a women's-only carriage onboard a train on a subway station platform in Tokyo on June 2, 2017. In Japan, where train travel can often be a perilous ordeal for women, an insurance company is reporting a sudden run on a policy that protects men falsely accused of groping. (AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi)
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he Japanese Olympic Committee's head of accounting died Monday after being hit by a train in Tokyo in a suspected suicide, investigative sources said.
The 52-year-old man was hit by the Toei Asakusa Line subway train at Nakanobu Station at around 9:20 a.m., they said, with just over a month to go before the opening of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
A station staffer saw the man jump into the tracks from the station's platform, the sources said, adding no suicide note has been found, Kyodo News reported.
Reuters meanwhile reported that Tokyo police said they are investigating a deadly incident on the city's subway, which media reports said involved a senior official at the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC).
Private broadcaster Nippon Television, citing metropolitan police sources, identified the person as someone who worked in the JOC's accounting department and said his death was being treated as a suspected suicide.
The police are investigating, said a police spokesperson, who did not elaborate. A JOC representative said the committee was collecting information, but did not give further details.
News of the incident was one of the top trending topics on Twitter in Japan. Already postponed a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Tokyo Games is scheduled to begin on July 23 in the face of public concerns that authorities can hold the event and keep the Japanese public safe from the spread of COIVD-19.
