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To: RealMuLan who wrote (2481)	3/3/1998 12:54:00 PM
From: Bucky Katt	Respond to of 9980

Small Japanese firm president and wife hang themselves 12.41 p.m. ET (1742 GMT) March 3, 1998 TOKYO (AP) - The president of a small Japanese firm and his wife hanged themselves in their living room Tuesday because of financial difficulties, police said. The deaths were the latest in a spate of suicides in Japan, including three businessmen and a ruling party legislator who hanged themselves in hotels last month. The legislator had been targeted in a corruption probe. The couple's company made picture and mirror frames. Police spokesman Yoshikatsu Nakamura identified them as Yasuo Nakajima, 54, and his wife Akiko, 50. Japan's prolonged economic slump has hit hard at small- and medium-sized businesses, which are finding it increasingly difficult to get bank support.