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39th year  -  N° 310                 Tuesday, 5 November 2024         Antwerpen		
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Tuesday 8th of April 1986

38 years ago She Became a Syndrome



Pop idol Yukiko Okada born as Kayo Satō aka Yukko commits suicide by jumping out of a 7th floor window of the Sun Music Agency building at the age of 19 in Yotsuya, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.


Two hours before Okada was found with a slashed wrist in her gas-filled apartment crouching in a closet and crying. Okada's death resulted in many copycat suicides in Japan, soon christened with the neologism 'Yukiko Syndrome'.