xxx 2 Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 I see we have another high profile suicide today. My colleagues here are saying it might be the end of Abe - not sure how that works.... Link to post Share on other sites
orinoco 0 Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 The singer Zard has also died today. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 Does he now have to "take responsibility"? Link to post Share on other sites
SirJibAlot 0 Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 So I'm walking back to my office after enjoing some nice Buta Niku for lunch when I notice there are 4 helicopters circling the area. The next street over has 2 sattelite news trucks - so being curious, we head over to see what's going down. Turns out, this is what happened... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18901018/ Link to post Share on other sites
cal 6 Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 Already on here: http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/221212/page/1/gonew/1#UNREAD Link to post Share on other sites
SirJibAlot 0 Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 yea, just missed it...sorry... Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted May 29, 2007 SnowJapan Admin Share Posted May 29, 2007 Hey that actually worked ---- just "merged" the topics! First time that Link to post Share on other sites
SirJibAlot 0 Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 whoa, that was freaky! Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted May 29, 2007 SnowJapan Admin Share Posted May 29, 2007 Still trying to work out how that works! but it seemed to work fine! Link to post Share on other sites
SirJibAlot 0 Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 I guess what was freaky about it was I posted at just about the moment you merged and it gave me an error. When I went back to the forums page, the topic was gone! Then when I refreshed, this thread rose to the top and my post that threw the error was in it. Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted May 29, 2007 SnowJapan Admin Share Posted May 29, 2007 Sorry about that! Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 Zard died too huh, didnt see that on the news at all. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 She fell down some stairs at the hospital it seems. Link to post Share on other sites
charlotte 0 Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 Yes they are saying on the tv now that Zard might have been suicide as well. I quite liked some of her songs (for jpop anyway). Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 Did anyone else see the interview with Tokyo Gov Ishihara. He said the guy was a "true samurai". Anyone able to tell me why he is a samurai? Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 cause he took the only option a real disgraced samurai would have taken, and topped himself... Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 Soubriquette explained this to me at lunchtime. He never complained and never explained. Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 yeah, and took the path of least responsibility. Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 And max cash. Link to post Share on other sites
samurai 0 Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 the suicide problem in this county actually just yesterday put a damper on a possible home for sale. My wife told me a cabin up at Zao I had previously complimented is up for sale. At my excitement she then said the lake next door is famous for suicides. "We're not living there." Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted June 1, 2007 Share Posted June 1, 2007 Realistically how many suicides are there in Japan? Would it be the top of the list? Is it "frowned upon" or seen as some kind of head held high (?) action in the face of advertisty. Sounds rather far-fetched but... Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted June 1, 2007 Share Posted June 1, 2007 It's a lot. Bankruptcy puts a burden on your family to pay the debts back, so It's one way out. Then there's the cultural thing, bushido spirit. Soubriquette doesn't see it as too clever though. She's a pretty tough lady though and nothing frightens her. Link to post Share on other sites
samurai 0 Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 BOC- I've seen stats that were insane. Like 30,000 a year. I think one stat pointed at how the population is half that of the US, but the suicide rate is double. Apparently it peaked in like 2003 or something, just before I arrived and much of that was due to the debt of the bubble bursting. Personally, I never heard so much about suicide until I came here. And in the last 2 years, a principal of a school in my district commited suicide and some students as well made the news. That's just what made the news. at a rate of 100 a day, obviously they don't make the news. On a (hopefully) side-note. I had a student die this year of "sudden pneumonia." She went to club, went home, died. The next morning we got the news. Not once did she miss school for being sick. (I reserve all respect- but I admit my suspicion.) Link to post Share on other sites
charlotte 0 Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 I've heard of a few suicides around where I live here in the countryside. Quite shocking. As you said samurai, before I came here I had never heard of anyone committing suicide back home. I think often suicides are also covered up as something else. Link to post Share on other sites
SirJibAlot 0 Posted June 12, 2007 Share Posted June 12, 2007 It's all these sappy dramas they put on TV - would drive just about any normal person to suicide. Link to post Share on other sites
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