Nine People Dead in Japan Mass-Suicides

http://www.comcast.net/news/international/index.jsp?cat=INTERNATIONAL&fn=/2006/03/10/342606.html&cvq ^ | 3 10 06 | KOZO MIZOGUCHI,

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Buh-bye, kooks.

[308MBR]

I saw the Mass suicides line and thought America was cleaning up after itself, but this is in Japan.

[trashcanbred]

Growing upduring the 80's everyone was running around telling us how "perfect" the Japanese were. What gives?

[MplsSteve]

That's bizarre as hell!

Holding a mass suicide with people you met OVER the Internet?!

Yikes!

[Cyclopean Squid]

Are they sure it wasn't the Judean People's Front Crack Suicide Squad?

[cripplecreek]

Sayonara in this case.

[r9etb]

Growing upduring the 80's everyone was running around telling us how "perfect" the Japanese were. What gives?

"Everyone" was the same group of yutzes who decided that giving lots of standardized tests and requiring teachers to do lots of extra paperwork would result in better schools....

Japanese culture can come up with some very, very strange things -- like, "rent-a-kid" services for parents whose own children are too busy to visit them.

[Element187]

you know for being rated one of the most intelligent societies in the world, they do alot of dumb things.

[bwteim]

hibachi - charcoal - japanese hmmmmmm??

[pawdoggie]

As long as they're not crash-diving into our aircraft carriers, who cares?

[mfnorman]

Hot women, strange society

[50sDad]

Growing upduring the 80's everyone was running around telling us how "perfect" the Japanese were. What gives?

Kinda like the Victorians, I suspect. If you must present a perfect image you can't live up to, you probably ultimately consider drastic ways out of the lie you must live.

[bonfire]

Suicide is nothing new to the Japanese culture. Wonder if it's still considered "honorable"?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Thank God guns are illegal in Japan, otherwise they might have killed themselves with guns.

[tfecw]

"But especially large numbers have occurred in Japan, where suicide rates are among the world's highest"

Japan has a high number of suicides.
a lot of folks in Japan are killing themselves in these "new" Internet suicide pacts..

Nope, I don't see any correlations here...only solution is to monitor the net. You know, to protect the children.

[sageb1]

Police, Internet Providers Try to Deter Online Suicide Pacts

Excerpt:

"The new guidelines mean that providers can pass on information without fear of violating rules on freedom of expression and privacy, says Yoshikuni Masuyama, deputy director of the National Police Agency Cyber-Crime Division."

[Dead Dog]

Hot women, strange society

Just spent a week in Tokyo. True on both accounts.

[kenth]

Didn't that happen here, and one of the guys who urged his 'net pals to join him was actually just pushing people to kill themselves for his own pleasure? Serial killing by proxy, so to speak.

Or am I thinking urban legend? I thought the guy was arrested. Yes, I'm too lazy to even type this into a search.

[liberty2004]

Just spent a week in Tokyo. True on both accounts.

Lucky you. Asian women are sexy. Are the Japanese women friendly to Americans? I would think a Japanese woman would make a good wife.