A junior high school principal in Shizuoka Prefecture was found hanged Sunday morning in what police suspect was suicide.

Investigators believe Mitsuihiro Ikegami, 58, principal of Shimizu Dairoku Junior High School, killed himself over the death last week of a student who was crushed by a soccer goal on school grounds.

Ikegami's wife found her husband hanged in the living room of his home in the city of Shizuoka at around 8 a.m., police said, adding a note addressed to his family has been found.