LIMAY, Bataan – Police on Monday reported the death of a Japanese national allegedly by committing suicide Sunday morning inside their rented apartment at the hilly portion of barangay Lamao in Limay, Bataan.
Senior Supt. Arnold Gunnacao, Bataan police director, said Mitsuhide Osaki, 46, a native of Osaka, Japan, was found lifeless at about 6:00 in the morning while hanging by a blanket tied around his neck.
A mute and friend of victim upon peeping through an open jalousie of the apartment saw Osaki tied with the blanket attached to the concrete beam of the apartment that has no ceiling, police said.
He immediately informed the victim’s common-law wife Erlinda Castillo, 26 and with the help of neighbors untied the Japanese from the blanket and brought his body down. His remains were brought to the Lapid Funeral Services awaiting autopsy report from Scene of the Crime Operatives.
Police investigators allegedly found a suicide note written in Nihongo that when translated by another Japanese read “You betray me Ella. I cannot live anymore.”
Castillo who is five months pregnant was in tears, saying her Japanese partner was not able to see their first child.
“Nangyari ito dala ng sobrang panggigipit ng mga taong nasa paligid, ng mga paninigil na nagkasabay-sabay at nagahol kami sa oras,” Erlinda said.
She said that she and the victim were in debts and she could not understand why almost all collectors were demanding payments the day before her husband died.
She met Osaki in Manila sometime in May last year. They stayed together starting January this year. She said they only had petty quarrels “because we are both jobless.” She said her partner’s company in Japan went bankrupt.
Mitshuru Shibata, 64, a retired member of the Japanese Army, became a friend of the victim after acquaintances introduced them five months ago. He said Osaki had told him of the desire to go back to Japan and was seeking his support.
The elder Japanese has been staying with a Filipina common-law wife in Lamao for more than seven years. A day before the victim died, Shibata said he noticed that his friend looked lonely and sad. He said, however, that he has no idea why Osaki committed suicide.
Senior Supt. Arnold Gunnacao, Bataan police director, said Mitsuhide Osaki, 46, a native of Osaka, Japan, was found lifeless at about 6:00 in the morning while hanging by a blanket tied around his neck.
A mute and friend of victim upon peeping through an open jalousie of the apartment saw Osaki tied with the blanket attached to the concrete beam of the apartment that has no ceiling, police said.
He immediately informed the victim’s common-law wife Erlinda Castillo, 26 and with the help of neighbors untied the Japanese from the blanket and brought his body down. His remains were brought to the Lapid Funeral Services awaiting autopsy report from Scene of the Crime Operatives.
Police investigators allegedly found a suicide note written in Nihongo that when translated by another Japanese read “You betray me Ella. I cannot live anymore.”
Castillo who is five months pregnant was in tears, saying her Japanese partner was not able to see their first child.
“Nangyari ito dala ng sobrang panggigipit ng mga taong nasa paligid, ng mga paninigil na nagkasabay-sabay at nagahol kami sa oras,” Erlinda said.
She said that she and the victim were in debts and she could not understand why almost all collectors were demanding payments the day before her husband died.
She met Osaki in Manila sometime in May last year. They stayed together starting January this year. She said they only had petty quarrels “because we are both jobless.” She said her partner’s company in Japan went bankrupt.
Mitshuru Shibata, 64, a retired member of the Japanese Army, became a friend of the victim after acquaintances introduced them five months ago. He said Osaki had told him of the desire to go back to Japan and was seeking his support.
The elder Japanese has been staying with a Filipina common-law wife in Lamao for more than seven years. A day before the victim died, Shibata said he noticed that his friend looked lonely and sad. He said, however, that he has no idea why Osaki committed suicide.
