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Vietnamese American businessman stabbed in Tokyo office
A man fatally stabbed in a Tokyo office building Thursday night was identified Friday as a Vietnamese American board member of a business consulting company housed in the building, police said.
At around 11:10 p.m., a female employee of the consulting company found Matthew Nguyen Littauer lying in the corridor on the third floor of the building in Tokyo's Minato-ku, and alerted police. He was bleeding from his back and chest, and died shortly afterwards.
Two employees of the firm heard someone screaming in the corridor, and one of them rushed out to find 34-year-old Littauer lying in a pool of blood. About 7,000 yen remained in his trouser pocket.
A kitchen knife was found in a ditch about 150 meters away from the scene and a bloodstained towel was discovered nearby, police said.
Investigators suspect that Littauer was murdered shortly after he showed up at the office. He usually came to the office at around 11 p.m. because he was engaged in securities transactions with American and European companies. (Compiled from Mainichi and wire reports, Japan, Dec. 3, 2004
A man fatally stabbed in a Tokyo office building Thursday night was identified Friday as a Vietnamese American board member of a business consulting company housed in the building, police said.
At around 11:10 p.m., a female employee of the consulting company found Matthew Nguyen Littauer lying in the corridor on the third floor of the building in Tokyo's Minato-ku, and alerted police. He was bleeding from his back and chest, and died shortly afterwards.
Two employees of the firm heard someone screaming in the corridor, and one of them rushed out to find 34-year-old Littauer lying in a pool of blood. About 7,000 yen remained in his trouser pocket.
A kitchen knife was found in a ditch about 150 meters away from the scene and a bloodstained towel was discovered nearby, police said.
Investigators suspect that Littauer was murdered shortly after he showed up at the office. He usually came to the office at around 11 p.m. because he was engaged in securities transactions with American and European companies. (Compiled from Mainichi and wire reports, Japan, Dec. 3, 2004
Dang I guess it ain't safe to go to Japan if there is all this crime.
