Sayaka Kanda's premature death

When I woke up after falling asleep last night and looked at my smartphone, I found that Sayaka Kanda had fallen from a hotel in Sapporo and was seriously injured. This was another painful news story after the recent arson attack in Osaka. Because of that I became totally awake, and when I checked again after a while, she had been pronounced dead.

Oh no...she was only 35 years old and had fallen off the upper floor of the hotel where she was staying for a musical show that she was starring in. I carefully read articles in all the newspapers and comments on the Internet, and learned that there was a possibility of both suicide or an accidental death.

There was also a comment from a person who had the experience of being sucked out as soon as the window was opened, in part because of the structure of the window and the condition of the outside air. The person felt that if this had happened to a smaller person, the entire body of the person could have sucked out of thehis window.

Meanwhile, just before her death, Sayaka made a congratulatory call to her father Masaki Kanda for his birthday on 21 December. I'm not sure why it was three days before his birthday, but she might have wanted to hear his voice before leaving this world.

Sayaka's mother Seiko Matsuda had broken up with her former heartthrob Hiromi Go and married Masaki Kanda. She gave birth to Sayaka in 1986. At that time I was in my second year of university and had a very busy life.

This childbirth felt like the end of an era.

At that time, it was the norm for female entertainers to marry a fellow entertainer they met at work and retire. After giving birth, they disappeared from the centre stage and concentrated on housework and childcare. Typical examples are Momoe Yamaguchi and Hidemi Ishikawa.

I had assumed that Seiko Matsuda would also follow this pattern. However, she has continued to be visible for her scandals, private life, advancement to the United States, songwriting, etc. Even now she wears frilly costumes and does covers of her own old songs, and has the momentum to continue to be an idol for the rest of her life. In a good way, my expectations have not been met, and I have been rejuvenated by her success.

When Sayaka was born, I was almost an adult, and I still remember her as a baby. I don't know what happened, but Seiko would never have thought that her daughter would die early at the age of 35. I feel sorry for her and gloomy.