Death
Around 10 o'clock April 8, 1986, the manager of the Sun Music building found the 18-year old Okada in her gas-filled Tokyo apartment, crouching in a closet and sobbing with a slashed wrist. Two hours later, the singer jumped to her death from the seven-story Sun Music Agency building. The reason for the suicide is still unknown. Her untimely death resulted in many copycat suicides in Japan, soon christened with the neologism "Yukiko Syndrome".
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