Former TV director gets suspended term for helping commentator take his own life
A former director of a TV program featuring conservative commentator Susumu Nishibe was given a suspended jail term on Friday for helping the 78-year-old kill himself in January. The Tokyo District Court sentenced Tetsugaku Kubota, a 45-year-old former employee of a Tokyo Metropolitan Television Broadcasting ...
Police said Friday they have arrested a pair close to conservative critic Susumu Nishibe, who died in January of an apparent suicide at the age of 78, on the suspicion that they helped the former TV host kill himself. The suspects are Tetsugaku Kubota, 45, ...
Conservative critic Susumu Nishibe dies at 78 in apparent suicide
Conservative critic Susumu Nishibe died on Sunday of an apparent suicide, the police said. He was 78. The police said they received an emergency call at around 6:40 a.m. from his eldest son, 48, who said Nishibe had dived into the Tama River in the ...
