![]() ![]() He may have had an overdose or taken too much of a bad batch, which ultimately lead to his downfall. Certainly, videos like ‘I Just Wanna’ and at the beginning of ‘Densetsu’ (伝説), meaning ‘legend’, a video that appears to have been put together by a fan and shows a live performance of ‘Shirazaa Itte Kikaseya Show’ (知らざあ言って聞かせやSHOW) mixed together with part of a promotional video, Tokona can be ‘clearly’ seen preparing something and taking that something. It is said that Tokona had links to the Japanese underground and if this is true, it’s likely that he could have gotten his hands on cocaine. Drugs seem to be readily available in Japan if you can find the right person, as every few months, a celebrity becomes embroiled in a drug scandal usually related to marijuana. While still quite a warm month in Nagoya, I wonder why it was this, much cooler and less humid month that he passed away.Ĭocaine seems to be a popular drug with stars in the West and despite their strict drug laws, it way also be popular in the East. He’d been struggling all summer with heat stroke, then in November, he suffered a cardiac arrest from which he did not recover. Officially, Tokona died of heart failure. I asked him ‘why haven’t you been outside all summer?’ and he responded ‘because I’ll die!’ We shared a laugh together, but the serious truth is that the heat really can drain your energy. One summer, I was deep in conversation with an old man who runs a restaurant I love to visit and he said he hadn’t gone outside all summer. It’s often a good idea to stay indoors as much as possible, enjoying your air conditioning. The far south in Okinawa is perpetually tropical, but towards the middle latitudes of the country, the heat of summer is prolonged and the hot, humid months seem that much more intense because of that. In the north of the country, the hot, humid months come and go reasonably quickly, preceded by the rainy season known as Plum Rain or Taiyou (梅雨) in Japanese. They are unbearably hot, extremely humid and have the power to sap your energy completely. ![]() There’s a public or ‘official’ reason for his death, a second, potentially more honest account and an a third reason involving Yakuza and murder.Īs anyone that has lived in Japan will know that the summer months can be very uncomfortable. It wasn’t the right time for him to die, in the prime of his life and at a promising stage of his career, but in each scenario, a set of factors came together and lead to his passing. The only true conclusion we can get from each version is that his death was untimely. There are three versions of events surrounding Tokona’s death, asking the question ‘did he die, or was he murdered?’ All versions leave us with more questions than we had to begin with.
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