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"Fight for Your Heart", as the theme song for Two Weeks. "Fight for Your Heart" released on August
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7, 2019, charting at #12 on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart and #34 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100
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on its first week of release. Miura also won the Asia Star Award at the Seoul International Drama
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Awards for his performance in Two Weeks. In November 2019, Miura was cast in the live-action film
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adaptation of the manga Brave: Gunjō Seiki as Matsudaira Motoyasu.
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Miura reprised his role as Jesse for The Confidence Man JP: Episode of the Princess. In March 2020,
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he was cast as Hiroyuki Ishimura in the television drama Gift of Fire, which was set to broadcast
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in August 2020, and reprised his role for the series' film continuation. In the same month, he
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released his fifth photobook, Nihonsei, in two different versions, with one version including a
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documentary photobook. He co-starred in the Japanese stage production of Whistle Down the Wind as
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The Man, which ran from March 7 to April 23, 2020. On his 30th birthday on April 5, 2020, he
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revealed on an Instagram live-stream that he was releasing "Night Diver" as his second single in
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early Q3 2020, which contained three songs from different genres including a dance song and a love
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song. He also stated that he composed and wrote the lyrics for "You & I", one of the B-side tracks,
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and "Night Diver" was later set to debut on Music Station on July 24, 2020. He was set to have his
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first concert events in Q4 2020, but they were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and were
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planned to be live-streamed instead. He co-starred in the television drama Love Will Begin When
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Money End, which will be broadcast in September 2020, and was also cast in the musical The
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Illusionist, which was set to run in December 2020.
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Personal life
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Miura attended Horikoshi High School and graduated in 2009. From September 2016 until November
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2017, Miura dated choreographer Koharu Sugawara. From 2016 to 2020, Miura participated in the
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charity event Act Against Aids. In 2017, he briefly studied abroad in London.
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Death
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On July 18, 2020, at 1:35 pm (JST), Miura was found unresponsive after hanging himself in his
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closet at his home in Minato, Tokyo. His body was discovered by his manager, who had been ready to
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pick him up for work and then checked up on him after he did not respond to the messages, phone
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calls, or doorbell sounds. He was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead at 2:10 pm.
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Police believe Miura died by suicide, as an apparent suicide note was found in his room. The note,
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which was written in Miura's notebook, was undated, but he expressed anxiety and thoughts about
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dying. Miura's friends have stated he showed no signs of being suicidal prior to his death. Media
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news outlets linked it to cyberbullying and hate comments on social media, but Miura's friends and
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colleagues partially or completely refuted the claims.
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NHK reported on July 20, 2020, that Miura's funeral and burial services had already been held.
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While fans paid tribute to Miura by leaving flowers outside of his condominium, his agency, Amuse
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Inc., announced that they will be setting up an opportunity for fans to pay respects while taking
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into consideration the COVID-19 pandemic. After the official website for Sekai wa Hoshii Mono ni
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Afureteru: Tabi Suru Buyer Gokujō List, the travel program Miura had co-hosted since its first
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broadcast in 2018, posted a statement offering condolences to Miura, this led many users on Twitter
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to tweet messages addressed to him using the hashtag #.
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Miura's second single, "Night Diver", was released posthumously on August 24, 2020, with it
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pre-released digitally on July 25, 2020. Gift of Fire and The Illusionist, two upcoming projects
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that Miura co-starred in, were put on hold. Miura's debut single, "Fight for Your Heart",
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re-entered the music charts, peaking at No. 7 on Oricon Daily Singles Ranking.
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Filmography
Film
Television
Music video
Theater
DVDs
Discography
Singles
Publications
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Photobooks
Awards
References
External links
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1990 births
2020 deaths
2020 suicides
Suicides by hanging in Japan
Suicides in Tokyo
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People from Tsuchiura
Musicians from Ibaraki Prefecture
Horikoshi High School alumni
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Amuse Inc. talents
20th-century Japanese male actors
21st-century Japanese male actors
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21st-century Japanese singers
21st-century Japanese male singers
Japanese male child actors
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Japanese male film actors
Japanese male television actors
Japanese male stage actors
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Japanese male pop singers
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Avijit Roy (; 12 September 1972 – 26 February 2015) was a Bangladeshi-American engineer, online
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activist, writer and blogger known for creating and administrating the Mukto-Mona, an Internet
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community for Bangladeshi freethinkers, rationalists, skeptics, atheists and humanists. Roy was an
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advocate of free expression in Bangladesh, coordinating international protests against government
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censorship and imprisonment of atheist bloggers. He was hacked to death by machete-wielding
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assailants in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 26 February 2015; Islamic militant organization Ansarullah
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Bangla Team claimed responsibility for the attack.
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Early life and education
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His father, Ajoy Roy, was a professor of physics at the University of Dhaka who received the
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Ekushey Padak award. Avijit earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from BUET. He
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earned a master's and doctoral degree in biomedical engineering from National University of
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Singapore.
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Career
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In 2006, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia, and worked as a software engineer. Roy published eight books
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in Bengali, he wrote on behalf of explicit atheism, homosexuality, evolution and astrophysics and
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also he publicized these things in his own blog (known as Mukto-Mona).
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Mukto-Mona
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Roy was the founder of the Bangladeshi Mukto-Mona (freethinkers) website which was one of the
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nominees of The Bobs (Best of Blogs) Award in the Best of Online Activism category. Mukto-Mona
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began as a Yahoo group in May 2001, but became a website in 2002.
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Roy described his writing as "taboo" in Bangladesh. He had received death threats from
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fundamentalist bloggers for his articles and books. Rokomari.com, a Bangladeshi e-commerce site,
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stopped selling Roy's books after its owner received death threats from Islamists.
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Protests and advocacy
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A Bangladeshi group, Blogger and Online Activist Network (BOAN), initiated the 2013 Shahbag
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protests that sought capital punishment for the Islamist leader and war criminal Abdul Quader Molla
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as well as the removal of Jamaat-e-Islami from politics. Islamist groups responded by organising
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protests calling for the execution of "atheist bloggers" accused of insulting Islam, and the
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introduction of a blasphemy law. Many atheist bloggers who supported the Shahbag protests came
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under attack, and Ahmed Rajib Haider was killed by Islamist groups on 15 February 2013. A month
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before the protest, blogger Asif Mohiuddin was attacked outside his house by four youths influenced
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by Anwar Al-Awlaki, and Sunnyur Rahman, known as Nastik Nobi ("Atheist Prophet"), was stabbed on 7
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March 2013.
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Asif Mohiuddin, a winner of the BOBs award for online activism, was on an Islamist hit list that
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also included the murdered sociology professor Shafiul Islam. Mohiuddin's blog was shut down by the
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Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, and he was jailed for posting "offensive
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comments about Islam and Mohammed." The secular government arrested several other bloggers and
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blocked about a dozen websites and blogs, as well as giving police protection to some bloggers.
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International organisations, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Reporters Without
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Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the imprisonment of bloggers and the
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climate of fear for journalists.
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Avijit Roy wrote that he was disgusted that the Bangladeshi media portrayed young bloggers as
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"crooks in the public eye" and wrote to Western media outlets and the Center for Inquiry and the
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International Humanist and Ethical Union for support. Roy went on to coordinate international
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protests in Dhaka, New York City, Washington, D.C., London, Ottawa and other cities in support of
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the jailed bloggers. He was joined by writers, activists, and prominent secularists and
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intellectuals around the world including Salman Rushdie, Taslima Nasrin, Hemant Mehta, Maryam
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Namazie, PZ Myers, Anu Muhammad, Ajoy Roy, Qayyum Chowdhury, Ramendu Majumdar and Muhammad Zafar
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