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As Japan’s Hana Kimura is mourned, Terrace House cast say they also faced online abuse
- The professional wrestler died on Saturday and was a cast member of the popular Netflix reality show Terrace House
- Her death has been blamed on cyberbullying, and Japanese politicians have agreed to work towards creating rules to prevent such abuse
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Tributes are pouring in for Hana Kimura, a Japanese professional wrestler and a member of the Terrace House reality show on Netflix, who is understood to have taken her own life on Saturday after being the victim of online bullying. She was 22.
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Kimura’s death was announced by World Wonder Wing Stardom, the female wrestling league that she fought in, although the brief statement gave no further details.
Kimura was believed to have killed herself in her Tokyo home where she was living alone, according to investigative sources.
Several suicide notes were discovered in her room, the sources said, including one addressed to her mother which said: “Thank you for giving birth to me.”
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On the day of her death, she tweeted: “Every day, I receive nearly 100 honest opinions and I cannot deny that I get hurt.” She also wrote: “Thank you for giving birth to me, Mom. I wanted to be loved in life.”
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