A 13-year-old boy who was struck and killed by a train in Yahaba, Iwate Prefecture, on Sunday had left a note saying he had problems with friends at school and wanted to die, it has been learned.
Ryo Muramatsu, who lived and attended schools in the town of Yahaba, was run over by a train at Yahaba Station on the JR Tohoku Line at around 7:30 p.m. on Sunday.
Iwate Prefectural Police are treating the case as a suicide.