Japanese man streams suicide live on the internet A Japanese man has committed suicide live on the internet after being egged on by users of an online chat room.
By Julian Ryall in Tokyo 7:00AM GMT 11 Nov 2010 The 24-year-old man, who has not been named, was found dead in his apartment in the city of Sendai early on Tuesday morning. Police had been alerted by viewers of the Ustream web page and were able to locate the man's apartment.
By the time they arrived at 8am, however, the man was already dead.
The man had announced his intention to kill himself in online chat rooms last week, according to the Yomiuri newspaper, after complaining for some weeks about problems he had been experiencing at work.
