Masanori Matsugawa, mayor of Ginowan, was discovered on a bed in his hotel room after he failed to show up at a planned engagement.
A mayor of a city in the southernmost Japanese prefecture of Okinawa, which hosts a US military base at the heart of a controversy over its relocation, was found dead in a Tokyo hotel on Friday, police said. He is suspected to have died from an illness.
Masanori Matsugawa, mayor of Ginowan, was discovered on a bed in his hotel room after he failed to show up at a planned engagement.
