[/floatr]China Daily: Japanese journalist died from drinking binge
A preliminary investigation by police in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, revealed on Friday that a sound recorder for Japanese broadcaster NHK died in the city from excessive drinking. Moriyama Shiyouta, 31, was found dead at 8:40 am on Thursday in his hotel room in the city's Jinwan District, where he and his colleagues had been staying for a week. He had been drinking heavily at a dinner the previous evening, according to the district's press office. "The coroner found vomit in his mouth and nasal cavity. The police said he died from suffocation while drunk," Zhang Hongmei, a district government spokeswoman told China Daily on Friday...Shiyouta and three colleagues from NHK were working on a documentary about the Japanese navy's invasion of Zhuhai during World War II, in which it massacred around 6,000 people in Sanzao, Jinwan District in 1938...The Japanese Consulate-General in Guangzhou made no comment about the incident on Friday...more...
