Hide's Death
Hide's Death
Here's some more information about Hide's death that LB collected from around the web.
The
following contains CNN news about Hide's funeral. The translation is done
by Joey Au. Copied from his web page.
X japan..Forever
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Yoshiki said: I'm very shocked to hear about his death. I still can't believe what has happened. Right now, he's sleeping with a beautiful face. I tried to wake him up many times, but he's still sleeping. Between the five of us, Hide was the one who kept his calm and thought out things. Even though I was the leader, he was the calm one who gave me good advice when I was being short tempered and emotional. Of course with all of that pressure, he too almost lost his identity. But during those hard times, he'd always give me a call. We would talk about X, music, friends, life, fans, almost anything. He was like an older to me and sometimes like a younger brother too. We'd drink together and sometimes fight. But the next day, he'd come to me and say, "Yoshiki, did I do something last night? I'm sorry, I don't remember a thing.: But this time, he didn't say anything back to me, sleeping. Too all fans and friends, you must all be confused. I too can not express this sadness in words But we must understand that this is a reality. Everyone please watch over his eternal sleep warmly. X-Japan Leader Yoshiki Yoshiki was wiping his tears with a white hankerchief, the paper he was reading was shaking, his words all muffled by his tears. This was read in front of the temple where Hide's funeral will be at on the seventh. |
Mainichishinbun
[popular newspaper]
"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. |
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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.
News
from Asahi
Newspaper.
On May 2nd 7:30 am, the popular band "X-Japan" former member, Hide, aka Matsumoto
Hideto (33), was found hung himself in his mansion home's bedroom in Minamiazabu,
Minato-ku in Tokyo by his family. Matsumoto-san was tranfer to the hospital
immediately, but was annouced dead on 9:00 am. The police are now investigating
the motive of his suicide.
According to the investigation, they've found Matsumoto was hanging by the neck from a towel hanging from the room's doorknob. Matsumoto san just went home the same day on 6:30 in the morning, he was supposed to go to bed, after one hour, his family notice something strange. They did not find any good bye letter.
Matsumoto played guitar in "X-Japan" who're disbanded last year. Also he has been very active in AIDS charity projects.
May
4th, 1998--Japanese Daily Sun (Nikkan Sun)
Hide commits suicide by hanging! On May 2, at approximately 7 a.m., former
guitarist of the now disbanded X-Japan hide (age 33, real name Matsumoto Hideto)
committed suicide by hanging by the neck. No suicide note was found. hide
had recently returned to Japan from a trip to L.A. last month, to begin promotional
work for his next single. He was energetically working before this mysterious
suicide occured.
It was a sudden suicide when caused many people to wonder "Why?"
According to the police, hide was dropped off at his Tokyo Minami-Azabu (Noah's Ark) mansion (apartment) by this younger brother (age 30) at approximately 6:30 a.m., drunk when arriving home, it was thought he went to sleep. At about 7:30 a.m., a woman living in the apartment with hide, worried, went to check on him when she discovered him uncouscious, hanging by the neck on his bedroom door. She immediately dialed 119 (911 in Japan) and he was taken to a nearby hospital. He was pronounced dead at 8:52 a.m.
At the time of death, hide was wearing a running shirt and trunks. The towel used in the suicide was ripped in half lengthwise with the top and the bottom ends tied together hooked onto the bedroom door. He body was found in a sitting position hanging from the the towel around his neck. The woman who discovered him and her friend were in another room. There was no suicide note. The body was claimed by later in the day by his younger brother and parents.
hide was planning to release "Pink Spider" on the 13th and "EVER FREE" on the 27 of this month. For promotional work, he had returned from L.A. just last month on the 27th. On May 1st, he taped a segment for the Fuji TV Music Program "Rocket Punch!" (Monday nights at 11 p.m. - scheduled to air on the 11th). This was his last work.
After he participated in X-Japan's last concert at Tokyo Dome last year and the Kohaku Uta Gassen, his solo project "hide with Spread Beaver" had a great start with the single "Rocket Dive" which debut at Number 4 on the Oricon music charts. His album which was scheduled for release in June was delayed until September, and he was planning a national tour during the summer, his musical career was looking good.
Also, his radio program "hide no All Night Nippon-R" began on April 10 was still being broadcast. Until now, his broadcasts were taped in Los Angeles. His next broadcast was to take place in-studio. The director of the show said "There was no indication about this happening. It's quite a shock."
Everything was looking good for hide. His production office said "His work is doing well. I can't think of anything that would cause him to kill himself." He may have a problem that he couldn't discuss with anyone, possibly dealing with work, or maybe problems with women. We can only wonder what happened in that hour between the time he came home and when he killed himself.
Get
some more information about Hide's death at the following sites!
Quentin's
Place (English)
YXL
X Japan Page (Chinese)
The
World of X JAPAN (Chinese)
This
is the LB's version of Hide's death:
Can't remember where I read it from, but LB will just dig it out from my memory.
It was said that Hide was diagonised with high blood pressure. The doctor
told Hide that he needed to do some kind of exercise which involved tieing
a towel on the door knob(whatever that exercise is). On the morning of Hide's
death, Hide was so drunk that he over do this exercise, resulting in the tragic
death. Dunno about what you guys think about it, but LB found it more convinsive
than just "too drunk so hang himself".