Tokyo is a crowded place, so you always have to be careful where you walk to avoid bumping into others. Of course, it is a little unreasonable to have to look up for falling objects, especially people.

On the last day of 2004, a suicidal woman leapt from a 12-storey building landing on top of a man as he walked past the Tokyo high-rise. Both were killed in the incident according to the Mainichi article.

This is a repeat of a similar event in August 2004 where an unemployed man landed on another man who was passing by with a friend, after leaping from a high-rise. The jumper and the man he landed on both died, but the friend remain physically unharmed. Article on Mainichi among other places.

Neither jumper was trying to land on anyone, it was just the way things happened.

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