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"X Japan" 's former guitarist Hide-san found in his home !
On the 2nd around 7:30 am, a former member of the popular rock group that broke up at the end of last year, guitarist
Hide-san (age 33), real name Matsumoto Hideto, was discovered by the woman he lived with in his Tokyo Metropolitan area Koukunanasanuno house hung. She called 119 [same as 911 in USA; emergency number]. He was confirmed dead before 9 am while being transported to the hospital. There was no posthumous writings (suicide note?); a police headquarter officer said it looked like suicide. As to the investigation, on the same day around 6 am, Matsumoto-san was sent home with his younger brother (age 30). As they had been considerably drunk, the woman he had lived with put him to bed on his 12 tatami mats in his room; at 7:30 am when she went to check on him, Matsumono had wreathed a towel on the side of the door knob, it appeared like he was hung with shirimochi (?) and this is how she found him hung. He was in his underwear. The towel was cut into two, both ends being tied together into a cord.

Matsumoto-san came from Kanagawa Prefecture Oushu City. In 1987, he became guitarist of the former group "X JAPAN." After the separation December of last year, "X JAPAN" was organized into 2 bands, it had many fans. And they had also participated in the Marrow Bank Organization. Matsumoto released a solo single in January "ROCKET DIVE" that sold 600000 records; and in this month, he was to release 2 singles. The album recording was scheduled to begin in 3 days.

As Matsumoto-san was affiliated with the record company "Universal Victor", company employees would energetically come to work to assist him. One company employee bewilderingly said "I haven't heard anything of dying about breathing difficulties. He was doing okay, but it does seem to be suicide." The single will be released at planned. A company official of the music company "Head Wax Organization" stated "I don't know about the circumstances of his death. Nothing comes to my mind."

Funeral services of Matsumoto-san will be held on the 7th at 1 p.m., at the Chikuji Hongan Temple in Central Chikuji. The
chief mourner is Mitsuru-kun.

In August of '96, Matsumoto-san registered for a bone marrow transplant donor from a sick fan girl who he slept with; the fan understood and gave him her cooperation.

Living in Wakayama Prefecture, he got to know this girl at the end of '95. The girl came to visit Matsumoto-san at a concert; what was known as "Peripheral Nerve Regenerative Disorder," there were only 20 people with a serious case of this disease in the world. After this, Matsumoto-san continued to phone and write her, he thought that a bone marrow transplant was close at hand, and he decided to register it.

When he registered for the donor at the Nichiseki Central Blood Center in the Tokyo Metropolitan area Juukokuku, authorized personal drew blood from him and examined it; a donor card on his left arm shyly read "Because words can't express it well,there are only actions" and "Good luck to all of the children with cancer" was also the message.

(an article from Mainichi Shinbun, a popular newspaper in Japan about Hide's death)
 

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