When a mother’s worst fear comes true, the entire world grapples to make sense of it. This was vividly showcased when Somporn, a 48-year-old Thai woman, sought answers to her 23-year-old daughter’s perplexing demise from a high-rise building in Japan, just a day after her arrival there. This harrowing saga came under the scrutiny of the Pavena Foundation for Women and Children on September 10, as Somporn desperately sought their help to find what led to her child, Thanaporn’s, death.
Overwhelmed by her precarious financial state, Somporn could not take the journey to Japan herself to pry open the truth. She ardently denies the conclusion reached by Japanese police that her daughter had committed suicide. For Somporn, she deeply believes in Thanaporn’s dream of working as a party entertainer in Japan, to financially assist her mother with opening a refreshment shop and to provide for her own 4-year-old son back in Thailand.
Sketching a heartbreaking chronicle of her daughter’s last days, Somporn mentioned that Thanaporn had departed for Japan on July 21 and she had lost all contact with her since then. Estranged, Somporn found that messages sent via the LINE application remained unread, and her calls went mysteriously unresponded.
Somporn’s poignant tale took a chilling turn on July 26 when she received a distressing call from the Consular Affairs Department, disclosing the dreadful fact that her beloved daughter was no more. According to the Japanese authorities, Thanaporn met her untimely death falling from the eighth floor of a condominium located in the Isesaki City of Kanagawa prefecture.
With no physical traces of an altercation or struggle discernible at the site of her fall, officials seem to incline towards the theory of suicide. The security footage showed Thanaporn entering her room with luggage on July 23, but later the same day, a fellow resident found her luggage abandoned near her room. They failed in seeking the owner of the luggage and instead handed it over to the authorities.
In a futile attempt, Japanese authorities tried to get in touch with Thanaporn only to draw a blank. They then turned to the emergency contact listed in her passport — her mother, Somporn. Initially, Somporn was suspicious about the unseen caller but soon was overwhelmed by the harsh reality of her daughter’s fate unfolded on the line.
Sadly, Somporn was also bereft of bearing the cost of retrieving her daughter’s ashes after the local authorities had solemnly cremated Thanaporn. Making a breakthrough in the ordeal, Paveena Hongsakun, the founder of the Pavena Foundation, got hold of the case files from Japanese police — revealing that reluctantly, Thanaporn was on a call shortly before her death. Paveena conjectures this call to be germane to her passing.
As they try to unearth the truth by contacting the Japanese authorities for possible surveillance footage, the Pavena Foundation concurrently endeavors to support Somporn in the sensitive issue of transferring Thanaporn’s ashes back home. For more engaging stories and updates, do follow our new official Facebook page — The Thaiger HERE.
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