Talent management agency president commits suicide in office

RIP, my condolences ... No offense but I think that whole scene is depressing.

God almight!! I first thought this was about that old stingy hag running IMO!! But no, no! Yellow Cab?? Never heard of them but RIP??

Cause of his demise is obviuosly in conflict, I guess the coroner will make the final decision. However he died it will be a sad loss for his family and friends . my condoleceis RIP

Japanese talent is a cause of distress. R.I.P.

Ebuda even if this person was who you descibe as a stingy old hag in your evaluation of character, a person has died, a life is lost. Where is your compassion?

I am with Christina.

A life is lost, family and friends are suffering, etc. Being a Buddhist I hold ALL life sacred in the end it is a being still making the journey towards enlightenment.

"Heart attack" is the sugar-coated generic word often used when someone suicides here....

I said what I said, nothing to read into except what is written.

"Western Buddhists" covers a wide range of buddhist religions/groups and a large range of people from famous actors, athletes, musicians to blue-collar workers.

That is not the point.

Since Elbuda is also a self-admitted Buddhist and even posted his groups name here a few times.

I was raised christian(Lutherian-Protestant) and was taught to show the same respect to the dead as other religions do and thus agreed with Christiana.

He was found hanging from his tie in the toliet, now the story has changed to a heart attack. Thus the headline and contradictory story. We will never know WHY?. He did what he did, the fact that he managed "Talents" is the reason it's news. It's not a debate about religion, if you find solace in a belief, good for you! The story has nothing to do with this.

my condolences to the family..and may he rest in peace..

@Elbuda

might have more sympathy if you said foreigner rather than gaijin, it may not piss you off or been used in a way to piss you off but it has me.

However, a statement from Yellow Cab’s public relations manager said that Takanori Obinata, 58, had died of a heart attack in his office

This sounds like damage control.

So the company thought the claim of a heart attack would fly? I hope this attempt at 'damage control', as pukey puts it, damages them all the more. All the same, it's a shame the man felt the need to 'heart attack' himself. RIP.

To commit murder to one's self does not make sense to me...When life is so over whelming that you say to your self "Death is the only way". Then you need help! Not a noose....but if he really had a heart attack, well then it's in the lord's hand's. But if he died by his own hand, Then may lord have mercy on his eternal soul... Rest in Peace....

Someone has died, could people have respect for others and keep their religous beliefs to themselves.

Can you just hear the logic train at the agency? "Well, his heart did stop. So we could tell everyone he had a heart attack, they'll believe us, and our business wont suffer. Now cut him down, remove the noose, pay off the witnesses, and we should be good".

Someone has died, could people have respect for others and keep their religous beliefs to themselves.

Well said JohhnyGlitterball. Good to hear some common sense and decency amid all the other cynical snipes people are making based on pure conjecture.

If it is suicide, I really feel sorry for the guy. I lost a good friend many years ago to suicide. While I never understood why he did it, I have come to accept it. And it was his choice.

What I think is a shame is that many people in Japan don't feel there is anywhere they can turn to for help when they suffer from depression. It's like they feel cornered or trapped.

I'll say it once again, Japan needs to move into the 21st Century a bit more and remove the stigma attached to 'mental health issues' and start offering more help to the (obviously) large number of people out there who suffer from things like depression. Depression is the disease of the 21st century and a big threat to our general well-being and happiness. We need to be more open about it if we want to deal with it properly. Just my 2 cents.

there's like, no information at all in that post about what actually happened ... only about what might have