By Tokyo Reporter Staff
A stroll through Takeshita-dori reveals big, bulbous lettering of a variety of colors, painted on the shutters of one shop after another
Machida high school girl who died in apparent suicide wanted ‘relief’
By Tokyo Reporter Staff on May 11, 2021
TOKYO (TR) – A high school girl living in Machida City was hit and killed by a train at a railway crossing on Sunday, police have revealed.
The case is being treated as a suicide, reports the
Yomiuri Shimbun (May 10).
A witness said that the girl, 16, moved beyond the barricade at the crossing in the Morino area and into the path of a JR Yokohama Line train at around 6:40 p.m.