2 men fall to deaths from overhead Fukuoka parking lot.FUKUOKA Fukuoka (f  k `ōkä), city (1990 pop. 1,237,062), capital of Fukuoka prefecture, N Kyushu, Japan, on Hakata Bay. , Jan. 28 Kyodo
(EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. : UPDATING WITH MEN'S IDENTITIES AND OTHER DETAILS) Two men examining a lift to move vehicles in an overhead parking lot in downtown Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, fell to their deaths from the building housing the parking lot on Monday morning, police said. Masayuki Tsukahara, 54, and Satoru Tsuda, 42, fell from a height of some 30 meters, near the top floor, and died instantly at around 6:20 a.m. in Fukuoka's Chuo Ward, the police said. Tsukahara was the head of a maintenance company and Tsuda was his employee. Both were from the city of Koga, just north of Fukuoka. They and two others were examining the chains for the lift from around 6 a.m., the police said. The parking lot, New Park Daimyo daimyo (dī`myô) [Jap.,=great name], the great feudal landholders of Japan, the territorial barons as distinguished from the kuge, or court nobles. Great tax-free estates were built up from the 8th cent. , has 18 floors and can house a maximum of 68 vehicles. The lift can be operated only from the ground. |
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