Fears for safety of Killarney past pupil in Japan

SCHOOL friends of a 19-year-old Japanese boy who grew up in Killarney but who now lives in one of the worst-affected areas of Japan have expressed their concern and are desperately trying to contact him.

Friends of 19-year-old Satoshi Otsuka, who went to school in Killarney, said they were extremely worried about him and his family.

Mr Otsuka, his younger brother, mother and father — who worked as a senior executive with the Japanese -owned Alps electrics in Killarney and then in Millstreet in Co Cork — returned to Japan around two years ago.