Sawada Yasushi

Sawada Yasushi (沢田泰司), better known by his stage name TAIJI, is a bassist, singer-songwriter and producer.

On July 11, 2011, he was arrested after arguing with a female passenger on Delta Airlines Flight 298. On July 14, he was found unconscious in his detention cell, appearing to have attempted suicide by hanging himself with a bed sheet.

On July 17, he passed away after his mother and fiancée made the decision to turn off his life support system.

Profile

 * Name: Sawada Yasushi (沢田泰司)
 * Stage Name: TAIJI
 * Birthday: July 12, 1966
 * Date of Death: July 17, 2011 (aged 45)
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 * Blood Type: A
 * Height: 173cm

Suspicion surrounding his death
On July 11, 2011, TAIJI was arrested after arguing with a female passenger on Delta Airlines Flight 298. It was later found that that the passenger was his female manager, named KT. When TAIJI was sent to the intensive care unit for emergency treatment, KT also used TAIJI's mobile phone to send a text to his friends saying that he was fine, and later logged into his blog to delete all his content.

Although the hospital claimed that TAIJI died from suicide, there were no marks of strangulation on his neck. There were also bruises on his chest. The Japanese police sent a forensic doctor to Saipan, but it was rejected by the firm. Then the firm refused to allow the family to take the body back to Japan and was cremated without an autopsy in Saipan.

TAIJI's fiancée wrote in her book, TAIJI, that after she rushed to Saipan, the doctors refused to give her an explanation about how was TAIJI able to commide suicide inside the detention cell and also refused her to take the body away.

X JAPAN

 * Albums
 * VANISHING VISION
 * BLUE BLOOD
 * Jealousy
 * ART OF LIFE

LOUDNESS

 * Albums
 * LOUDNESS