Japanese commits suicide in Bali

Japanese commits suicide in Bali

DENPASAR, Bali: A 41-year-old Japanese man, apparently distressed over a failed relationship and business problems, hanged himself in a restroom of the Oriental Restaurant in the island's resort area of Nusa Dua.

Local police said the death was the second apparent suicide of a Japanese man within three days, after a women found the body of her newly-wed husband in the couple's hotel room on Saturday.

Denpasar Police detectives chief Comr. Budi Wasono said an Oriental Restaurant employee found the dead man hanging from the ceiling of the restroom around 8:45 p.m. on Saturday.

The man was identified as Minoru Takefuci, of Ojika Itami, Nyogo. He had been living and working in Bali for almost three years.

A restaurant employee recalled that before entering the rest room, Takefuci had spent a considerable amount of time drinking liquor with Ni Made Satik, a waitress at the restaurant. Takefuci seemed to be a lonely and tormented man.

"He hanged himself with his own shoelaces, but in his bag we also found a roll of metal cable. It seemed that he had made all the necessary preparations to take his own life," Wasono said. --JP