Some Corrections for BBC
Some of the BBC articles about the tragic murder of British national Lindsay Ann Hawker have some minor but unnecessary errors.
Hunt for man after Briton’s death
Miss Hawker graduated less than a year ago from Leeds University and was teaching English at Koiwa school in Tokyo.
Koiwa is actually a district in Tokyo, not the name of a school. She was working for the largest chain of English Conversation schools in Japan, NOVA, at their Koiwa school.
A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: “We can confirm that the body of a British national was found in an apartment in the Chiba district of Tokyo.
Chiba is a prefecture east of Tokyo, not a district in Tokyo. A prefecture is similar to a State in America, so it would be similar to saying the ‘New Jersey district of New York City.’
Interestingly enough, they do have the geography right in other paragraphs of the same story.
The body of Lindsay Ann Hawker, from Brandon near Coventry, was found in a bath of sand on a fourth-floor flat balcony in Ichikawa, east of Tokyo.
Ichikawa is a city in Chiba, the prefecture east of Tokyo.
Here is a map of the areas discussed in the article. The river between Koiwa and Ichikawa forms the boundary for Tokyo and Chiba.
I hope they find this guy soon, and I have every confidence that they will. His face is plastered everywhere, he only has two days of clothes with him, and no shoes. He can’t get far.
