Posted on 03/10/2006 11:30:40 AM PST by freepatriot32
TOKYO - Nine people in two groups were found asphyxiated in sealed cars, apparently the latest cases of group suicides that have surged in Japan, police said Friday.
Six bodies _ five men and one woman in their 20s _ were discovered early Friday in a car in Chichibu, about 50 miles northwest of Tokyo, said Ichiro Fukumoto, a spokesman with Chichibu police.
Fukumoto said three charcoal burners were still smoking in the car when the bodies were found, and the windows had been sealed with tape. Authorities thought the six met over the Internet before dying together in a forested area Thursday night.
A separate group of three bodies _ one man and two women _ was discovered Wednesday in Aomori, 360 miles northeast of Tokyo, a police official said on condition of anonymity because of department rules.
The three, in their 20s and 30s, also died by inhaling charcoal fumes in a car. Kyodo News agency reported they had met in a hospital and had told others they wanted to die.
Their deaths were the latest in a rash of group suicides in Japan, particularly those set up between strangers over the Internet.
A record 91 people died in 34 Internet-linked suicide cases last year, up from 55 people in 19 cases in 2004, the National Police Agency reported last month. The number of Internet suicide pacts has almost tripled from 2003, when the agency started keeping records.
Suicide pacts have been made over the Internet since at least the late 1990s, and have been reported everywhere from Guam to the Netherlands.
But especially large numbers have occurred in Japan, where suicide rates are among the world's highest. More than 32,000 Japanese took their own lives in 2004.
Sums it up perfectly...
Fine. Don't care if you are Japaneese or whatever. You wanna kill yourselves enmasse? Fine.
Do so unlike the mooselims taking innocents with you.
And the Gene pool becomes a little cleaner.
My feeling with the Japanese in general is that they put up with us, and that being American wouldn't help or hurt their preception of you.
However, my theory is that woman/people are the same everywhere, culture only changes how people behave outside of the house. Once you go home, your in her world, whether she is Scandinavian, American, or Japanese. (my world is my garage)
We did meet some outstanding folks over there. They are different, but very respectable.
or SUVs
Japan is a profoundly weird society. In the long run, I fear them more than the Chinese. Christianity is making significant inroads into China, a trend which I expect to continue. Japan has been notoriously difficult to evangelize.
Nine??
I thought they were overachievers there.
Hardly even a good effort.
I prefer a good old fashioned hara-kiri, myself.
Holding a mass suicide with people you met OVER the Internet?!
Kinda makes having sex with people you meet online seem sensible by comparison.
THAT's the word I was looking for. Brain-f*rt!
Thanks, c.
Kinda gives the old expression "she is to die for" a somewhat different twist. ;)
LOL!
Yeah the anti gun people point to japans low murder rates and say," see no guns" But they forget to mention the 32,000 SELF- MURDER rate.
Just take a look at the Japanese tourists...very strange
I married an Asian woman who is a great wife, but out of the dozen or so Asian women I know, only 1 or 2 would make a good wife.
For every American-Asian marriage that works out well I can name at least 2 that were disasters.
Based on my and other experience, the whole "subservient" thing is a total myth - which is fine with me. I haven't met one yet that matches that stereotype.
I don't get it either. What's going on over there anyway? Pretty sad.
thanks for the info. I am curious, generally speaking, why would the others not make a good wife? I always liked the disposition of Asian women.
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