Overview
- Early on Sunday, July 19, a man fell from a 12-storey apartment block in Naka-ku, Nagoya and landed on a woman walking on the sidewalk.
- The woman, Houra Inaba, 23, died hours later in hospital from hemorrhagic shock and the man, identified as Shinsei Taguchi, 29, remains unconscious and in critical condition.
- A friend who was walking with Inaba called emergency services and officers cordoned the area while forensic teams gathered evidence at the scene.
- Police have not yet determined which floor the man came from or whether he was a resident of the building and say they are investigating whether the fall was intentional or accidental.
- Reporters and officials have noted past rare cases in Japan where falling or jumping people struck pedestrians, raising questions about urban safety and how investigators will reconstruct what happened.