So what is the mochi death count this year?

[dimwit]

Reading over the newspapers I haven't yet found any accounts of an old person choking to death on mochi. If this trend continues it will be the first year I can remember where Canadian 'Polar Bear Club' death have outnumber mochists.

[Tsuru]

Or should it be mochiist?

[gomichild]

Heh I was thinking the same thing while eating ozoni and watching the news last night.

[dimwit]

Yes you are right. But mochi does a so much a better job of checking the population of seniors than typhoons will ever do.

[Takechanpoo]

3 already have been dead.
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20080101-00000924-san-soci

[Taro Toporific]

3 already have been dead.
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20080101-00000924-san-soci

The ever-charming Mari_diary reports:

.....we can buy a Mochi vacuum attachment for vacuum cleaners at the store....

-- mari_diary/2008/01/happy-new-year

[james]

Yes you are right. But mochi does a so much a better job of checking the population of seniors than typhoons will ever do.

the typhoons are working for darwin and definitely serve their purpose. "a typhoon is coming! i'd better get a closer look from the roof / beach / fishing boat"..

[Captain Japan]

At least four choke to death in Japan on New Year's rice cakes

Tokyo - At least four deaths were recorded through Wednesday in Tokyo from eating a traditional Japanese New Year's treat, sticky rice cakes called mochi, a news report said. The men who choked to death were aged 59 to 83 and another 10 people, all over 50, were taken to hospital because mochi had gotten caught in their throats, the Jiji Press news agency reported.

Although the danger of eating the cakes made from pounded glutinous rice is well-known, they remain popular. The Japanese prepare the rice cakes for the gods to receive good fortune in the New Year. The Japanese believe that by eating the treats, they also assimilate the favour of the gods.

The elderly are usually most at risk, and authorities advise them to eat mochi in small pieces with a lot of liquids. Authorities also warn that the elderly and children should eat them only in the company of other people who could attend to them or fetch help if choking should occur.

[dimwit]

The deah count is now 5 with 8 hospitalized.

http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/424219

The dead included a 59-year-old man, an 83-year-old man, two other men in their 70s and a man in his 60s, fire department officials said. Each year, the health ministry warns elderly people to be careful eating the sticky mochi which is a traditional New Year food.

Is just me, or have any of the rest on you wondered if some of these elderly people were mochied to death so that the kid could collect their inheritance.

[Greji]

Is just me, or have any of the rest on you wondered if some of these elderly people were mochied to death so that the kid could collect their inheritance.

Can't answer that right now. I'm busy trying to stuff this two kilo glob of mochi down Granny's gullet!

[Mulboyne]

Kyodo via Japan Today: 76-year-old man fatally chokes on mochi at Saitama station

A 76-year-old man choked to death at a railway station in Kawagoe, Saitama Prefecture, on Thursday afternoon, after choking on a mochi rice cake, police said. Tomosaku Ohira, from Saitama City, abruptly fell at JR Kawagoe Station around 2:10 p.m. and was rushed to a nearby hospital after paramedics found the mochi stuck in his throat. Ohira was pronounced dead at the hospital three hours later, police said. Ohira went out alone at about 10 a.m. without telling his family where he was going.

[succubusqueen]

Kyodo via Japan Today: 76-year-old man fatally chokes on mochi at Saitama station

I can hear the violins....far far away!:violin:

[FG Lurker]

Tokyo: 1 dead, 8 others hospitalized after choking on mochi cakes

[Taro Toporific]

Tokyo: 1 dead, 8 others hospitalized after choking on mochi cakes

Not bad!
This must be the lowest count in years.

[FG Lurker]

The news has been warning old people not to eat mochi this year as all the hospitals are full of COVID patients. Add in that a lot of retirement homes aren't letting people in or out also due to COVID and I guess it's keeping the count down this year.

How you doing these days Taro? Making it through the pandemic shitshow okay?

Small chance I might end up moving to Tokyo this year so if we ever have another FG gathering I might actually be able to attend. Post COVID, of course.

[Taro Toporific]

How you doing these days Taro? Making it through the pandemic shitshow okay?

I'm ok, but my healthy-and-only-50-years-old Japanese brother-in-law died of mysterious heart attack in the middle of all this Corona madness.

Back in the States, my 30-year-old, ex-NFL-draft, nephew caught the 'Rona from his wife who is a school nurse. They both recovered in a couple of weeks at home without really being badly sick---2 days fever and otherwise asymptomatic. The stupid vaccine can't come soon enough but Japan is dragging their heels.

...might end up moving to Tokyo this year so if we ever have another FG gathering

I doubt that normalcy for having any gatherings won't be possible until 2022, meh.

[dimwit]

The decrease in toothless oldies dying of mochi is due to the toothless oldies dying on COVID instead.

BTW Taro, people in Ehime never throw rocks at cars. If we did that the Tokyo plaque dogs might call the cops and stick around for days.

[Taro Toporific]

BTW Taro, people in Ehime never throw rocks at cars. If we did that the Tokyo plaque dogs might call the cops and stick around for days.

In the boondocks (Onsen gun, Ehime), according to my bother-in-law this evening's discussion at the volunteer fire department was a serious consideration about putting up fire road closure barriers up to prevent "outsiders" from entering.

[dimwit]

You mean like a pedophile in the community alert? Damn fine idea if you ask me. We are presently experiencing a cluster centred around a hostess club in Matsuyama. Undoubtedly they were infected by Go to travel whoremongers from Tokyo.

[Coligny]

Amateurs...

We have the list of bridges and tunnels to blowup to isolate the city...

At worse we can use all those trertra... tartrehe... tredadron... aww fuck... tank traps laid on the beachs...

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[FG Lurker]

Any mochi reports from this year?

With how old this forum has gotten, I guess some of the members are starting to fall into the at-risk age group... Careful out there everyone!

[FG Lurker]

2 men die after choking on mochi treats in Tokyo; 7 others taken to hospitals: Reports
Jonathan Limehouse | January 06, 2025

Two people in Japan have died and seven others had to be taken to hospitals after choking on mochi, a sweet rice cake that can prove difficult to swallow if not thoroughly chewed.

In just the first three days of the new year, nine people between the ages of 73 and 84 were taken to hospitals in the metro Tokyo area after they choked on mochi, Japan Today and Nippon TV reported, citing the Tokyo Fire Department. Of those, two died, according to the outlets, per Tokyo Fire.

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[Coligny]

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