Yukiko Okada Death Cause

Yukiko Okada was a Japanese singer and actress.

She was born Kayo Sato on August 22, 1967, in Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan.

Following winning a nationwide television show at age 15 in 1983, Okada debuted as an idol in 1984, and in April that year, she released her first single, “First Date”, written by composer and singer Mariya Takeuchi.

In two years, she had made eight singles and six albums.

Okada played the leading role in her first television drama, Kinjirareta Mariko, in 1985.

She won Rookie of the Year in 1984 and was also awarded the 26th Japan Record Awards Grand Prix Best New Artist Award for her third single, “-Dreaming Girl- Koi, Hajimemashite”.

Yukiko Okada Death Cause

Yukiko Okada committed suicide in 1986 by jumping from the rooftop of the Sun Music Building in Tokyo. She was 18.

On April 8, 1986, the 18-year-old Japanese singer Yukiko Okada was found with a slashed wrist in her gas-filled Tokyo apartment, crouching in a closet and sobbing. She had written a note which implied that things had not gone her way in a real or imagined romance with an actor old enough to be her father.

Two hours later, still unhappy and even more disoriented, Okada jumped to her death from a seven-storey building.

Following her death 23 out of 36 youth committed suicide by also jumping off a building. This was dubbed the “Yukko syndrome”.

Yukiko Okada’s remains were cremated and were interred at the Jōman-ji Temple, Aisai, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.