AsiaFile

…One day after that news that Cabinet Minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka hung himself in his Diet residence…come details that the former executive director of a firm tied by a political fundraising scandal to Matsuoka ALSO took his life rather than face more queries from prosecutors.

Shinichi Yamazaki, 76, had allegedly established the bid-rigging mechanism led by officials of the Japan Green Resources Agency, which is known as J-Green. Prosecutors raided his home Saturday and interrogated him several times, including Monday.

Matsuoka had been facing a Monday confrontation in the Diet over his receipt of political donations from J-Green contractors…but cut that short by killing himself. His body was found on Tuesday outside his home, although he apparently did not leave a suicide note.

I do not gloat in reporting these details….These are terrible tragedies. But they once again demonstrate that there is a PROBLEM relating to responsibility, accountability and SUICIDE…a cancer growing on the Japanese body politic….