celebrated her 21st birthday. what tokyo police are telling us is she died by suffocation by cervical compression, and that does sound like it s strangulation. the kyoto news agency said she and a friend went to a concert, where she was approached by two americans. she and her friend ended up with these men at a hotel in a party area here in tokyo. the police confirm that she was hours later found dead in the hotel room. and that in that hotel room was one of these americans. and at this point, the police say that they are trying to figure out how these two men fit in with this woman s death. furlong s death has rattled her small community back in ireland. she celebrated her 21st birthday party last december and was looking forward to finishing her course in tokyo, which would have been the last days of july. so she was literally, according to text messages, to come home. she was looking forward to going to the concert. which she was looking forward very much so to. the