Ex-lawmaker Nagata commits suicide in Fukuoka

Ex-lawmaker Nagata commits suicide in Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - Former House of Representatives member Hisayasu Nagata (in file photo), who resigned as a parliamentarian in April 2006 after using a fake e-mail message to grill a ruling party lawmaker, jumped to his death from an apartment building in an apparent suicide in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Jan. 3. (Kyodo)

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