Rather bizzare news today being reported that Suzuki Tamotsu, the 54 year old police station chief in Nikaho, Akita prefecture was found dead in an apparent suicide.

Here is a portion of what the Mainichi Daily news had to say about it:

At about 8:10 a.m. on Tuesday, officers at Nikaho Police Station visited the official residence for prefectural police personnel after director Tamotsu Suzuki, 54, failed to come to work and found him hanged in his room, investigators said.

A suicide note to his family that was found in his room did not say why he took his own life.

Prefectural police officials said they do not think he had any trouble involving his work or health problems.