Asami Nagakiya

Asami Nagakiya (1985–2016) was a Japanese musician, a steel pan player, who traveled regularly to Trinidad and Tobago to perform for the annual Carnival celebrations. She was found dead, in a case determined by the coroner to be murder by strangulation, on 9 February 2016, in a park that hosted Carnival activities, in the capital, Port-of-Spain.

Biography

A 30-year-old musician, a steel pan player from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, Asami Nagakiya was a regular to Trinidad's Carnival. She also played in several carnival bands and studied music at the Senzoku Gakuen College of Music.

Death Nagakiya was found dead in Queens Park Savannah, Port of Spain dressed in a "two-piece masquerade outfit", on Ash Wednesday morning.

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.