[dfwgator]

Ruh Roh!

[gov_bean_ counter]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppuku

... or a reasonable facsimile thereof.

[palmer]

Too bad that our... never mind.

[PapaBear3625]

Japanese stock markets will probably be jittery until the show drops.

[GeronL]

They allowed children (even preteens) to become sex objects and kiddie porn possession is legal in Tokyo and Nagano. If they had any honor a lot more of them should be doing this.

[Arthurio]

I wonder if this was an Arkansas style “suicide” - 4 or 5 shot gun blasts to the back of the head, or tied to a railroad track or something like that

[SnuffaBolshevik]

Anyone who isn’t well along in their preparations needs to pick up the pace.

There won’t be many more more Red Flags likes this before it’s too late.

[mojito]

This man was Japan's Financial Services Minister, not the Finance Minister. He'd be equivalent in this country to the head of the SEC, whereas the Finance Minister would be something like a morphing of the Fed Chair (Bernanke) and Treasury Sec. Geithner.

While the suicide of such a high-ranking official could indeed point to trouble for Japan's economy, it is nowhere near as serious as it would be if it was indeed the Finance Minister who had committed suicide.

[Nifster]

Oh this is such bad news not just for his family but the implicatins world wide cannot be ignored

[struggle]

For those foreigners wondering what this means: THIS IS NOT A GOOD SIGN.

[skinkinthegrass]

sword ping?