Asami Nagakiya

Asami Nagakiya (1985–2016) was a Japanese steel pan player[1] who traveled to Trinidad and Tobago every year to perform for the annual Carnival celebrations. She also played in several carnival bands and studied music at the Senzoku Gakuen College of Music.

Asami Nagakiya
Born1985
Died2016
Queen's Park Savannah
InstrumentsSteel pan

Death

Asami Nagakiya was found dead at Queens Park Savannah in Port of Spain dressed in a carnival costume with the id Legacy on Ash Wednesday. Confirmation on the cause of death was murder by strangulation.[2][3]

Resignation of mayor of Port of Spain

On February 16, 2016, mayor Raymond Tim Kee of Port of Spain resigned from his office. The resignation came following outrage over controversial comments he made a week earlier, soon after Nagakiya's death. His comments referred to the responsibility of women in preventing their own abuse.[4] Kee was succeeded by deputy mayor Keron Valentine.[5]

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gollark: People denying things does not generally make them true.
gollark: It's one thing to go "the universe is complicated, therefore an intelligent being of some sort created it" (not that I think you demonstrated this!) but it's quite another to go "therefore all the ridiculous and complicated lore of [SOME RELIGION] is also true".
gollark: That sounds like one of those things where they test a ridiculous amount of ways to extract information/random noise from the Bible and, amazingly, find that sometimes random noise seems like an interesting thing.
gollark: They weren't very *good* steam engines; they were missing steel or something.

References
  1. "Japanese Pannist Found Dead". TV6. Archived from the original on 2016-02-12.
  2. "Japanese Musician Often Took Part Trinidad Carnival". Japan Times.
  3. "Carnival Killing". NY Daily News.
  4. "Outrage in Trinidad after mayor blames Carnival killing on dancer's 'lewd behavior'". Washington Post.
  5. "It's Valentine's day". Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.
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