TL;DR A softball team captain at Seirei Senior High School in Seto, Aichi Prefecture, died by suicide in 2022. The school informed her classmates that she died in a traffic accident. Deputy principal Mahito Ikeda explained, "We wanted to prevent other students from being disturbed or follow her example to take their own lives." He added, "Consequently, her bereaved family felt they were induced to agree, and we are sorry about that."
by SkyInJapan