Former Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Hisayasu Nagata, 39, died in a hospital after falling from an apartment building in Kitakyushu in an apparent suicide, a local police source said Sunday.
A resident of the building in Yawatanishi Ward found Nagata in a parking lot Saturday and called police. He was pronounced dead shortly after 7 p.m., the police source said.
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