Labor standards inspection offices in Tokyo will allow workers' insurance to cover the deaths of a South Korean student and a Japanese photographer who were killed by a train Jan. 26 while trying to rescue a drunken man who fell onto the tracks at JR Shin-Okubo Station, the Labor Ministry said Tuesday.
The parents of Lee Su Hyon, a 26-year-old South Korean student, and the mother of Shiro Sekine, a 47-year-old photographer from Yokohama, had filed the insurance applications with the Shinjuku and Central Labor Standards Inspection offices to cover the deaths of their sons.
On the night Lee and Sekine were killed, Lee was on his way home to Arakawa Ward from his part-time job at an Internet cafe near the station in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward, and Sekine was on his way home to Yokohama's Midori Ward from his company in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward.