SPLAT!

[Taro Toporific]

According to news reports, Keiko Fuji seems to have committed suicide on August 22, 2013, by jumping off a 28-floor condominium building in Shinjuku, Tokyo. [NHK]

Keiko Fuji, mother of singer Hikaru Utada, found dead in suspected suicide
tokyoreporter.com | 2013/08/22

She was a Japanese enka singer and actress. She had success in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s with her ballad-type songs. wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiko_Fuji

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[wuchan]

ran out of money?


well, at least she didn't jump in front of a train.

[Taro Toporific]

ran out of money?
.

Maybe...

...In 2006, Fuji had $400,000 confiscated from her luggage at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York by drug enforcement officials just prior to boarding a plane for Las Vegas...
--
The Tokyo Reporter | 2013/08/22

...On March 3, 2006, U.S. DEA officials confiscated more than $400,000 in U.S., Canadian, and Australian currencies from Junko Utada's carry-on luggage at JFK Airport, New York, as she waited to board a flight to Las Vegas. Utada denied any wrongdoing, and was not charged with any crime. However, the government initiated forfeiture proceedings, seeking to seize the money, which it alleged represented proceeds of drug sales or was intended to be used to buy drugs. Utada disputed the government's claim
wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiko_Fuji#2006_confiscation_of_money_by_the_DEA

[wuchan]

she got it back in 2009.

Problem is 100k a year ain't shit these days. Better to take the dive.... ne?

[J.A.F.O]

"mother of singer Hikaru Utada"

Am I the only one who wants to sing boku wa kuma?

[matsuki]

She was pretty hot when younger...WTF happened when they had Hikaru?

[Mike Oxlong]

Utada comments on mother's apparent suicide for first time

Singer Hikaru Utada on Monday commented for the first time on her mother’s apparent suicide last week.

In a statement posted on her official website, Utada, 30, said: “I am proud to be the daughter of my mother. I have nothing but gratitude for everything she did for me.”

Utada’s mother, Keiko Fuji, a former well-known enka singer, apparently jumped to her death from a 13th-floor apartment in Tokyo last Thursday. According to police, Fuji, 62, wearing a T-shirt and short pants, was found lying on the grounds of her apartment building in Shinjuku Ward at around 7 a.m. She was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead. Police said Fuji lived in the apartment with a male friend in his 30s who was asleep at the time of the incident. Her slippers were found near the railing on the balcony, police said, but that no suicide note was found.

Utada said her mother had been suffering from mental illness for many years. “She is finally freed from her agony but ... the way she ended her life was beyond sad. I am suffering from a sense of remorse,” Utada said.

Utada also described her mother as “impulsive like a child but with an innocent charm that attracted everyone’s attention.”

Although Fuji faced many dark periods in her life, Utada said she only remembers her mother laughing...

[Coligny]

(...) Fuji, 62, wearing a T-shirt and short pants (...)

I got your problem right here...

[matsuki]

(...) Fuji, 62, wearing a T-shirt and short pants (...)

I got your problem right here...

Well....

Fuji lived in the apartment with a male friend in his 30s

[Taro Toporific]

Well....

Fuji lived in the apartment with a male friend in his 30s

"This week's Shukan Jitsuwa says man living with Keiko Fuji has gang ties"
自殺怪情報　藤圭子の同居人に流されたヤクザ人脈の真相
---Tokyo Reporter (@tokyoreporter)'s twitter August 29, 2013

[yanpa]

I was kind of wondering what the deal with that dude was...

[matsuki]

I was kind of wondering what the deal with that dude was...

Shush, you know you'd bang Utada Hikaru's mom if given the chance

[yanpa]

I was kind of wondering what the deal with that dude was...

Shush, you know you'd bang Utada Hikaru's mom if given the chance

Everyone else has by the sound of it. She was looking pretty well-maintained in a TV interview carried out when she was in her 50's... sounded batshit insane mind you...

[matsuki]

I was kind of wondering what the deal with that dude was...

Shush, you know you'd bang Utada Hikaru's mom if given the chance

Everyone else has by the sound of it. She was looking pretty well-maintained in a TV interview carried out when she was in her 50's... sounded batshit insane mind you...

I'd just print this out and put it over her face...

[Taro Toporific]

4-year-old girl survives fall from 9th floor in Oita
Japan Today / Nov. 17, 2014
A 4-year-old girl sustained only minor injuries after she fell from the balcony of her 9th floor apartment in Usa, Oita Prefecture.
According to police, the incident occurred at around 10 a.m. on Sunday. TBS reported that the girl had been on the balcony when she stood on a chair and climbed atop the one-meter railing...more...

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[Coligny]

So, it's like for cats. There is a critical minimum height over which the fall is dampened by lift and ground effect.
Study have shown that cats falling from an height (3 to 6-7 floors can't remember) had worse injuries than those falling from upper floors. Once right side up their skin act like a flying wing (sort of like flying sqwiwels maybee).

[Wage Slave]

Falling into a hedge while not being very heavy was the really important bit?

PS

Good to have you back Mr C. Keeping Mr W in check all by myself has been hard work

[wagyl]

Falling into a hedge while not being very heavy was the really important bit?

PS

Good to have you back Mr C. Keeping Mr W in check all by myself has been hard work

I am not so conceited to presume you are referring to me, but if you are, well, there are worthy opponents, and there are others. Thank you for the odd spar which addressed the actual issues, rather than just calling people whose opinions you disagree with idiots.

[Wage Slave]

Falling into a hedge while not being very heavy was the really important bit?

PS

Good to have you back Mr C. Keeping Mr W in check all by myself has been hard work

I am not so conceited to presume you are referring to me, but if you are, well, there are worthy opponents, and there are others. Thank you for the odd spar which addressed the actual issues, rather than just calling people whose opinions you disagree with idiots.

Exactly. All good fun.

[Coligny]

Exactly. All good fun.

Aboot your definition of fun... I usually have more when I ask me julie to shoot me with an airsoft riffle... I'll weasel out and leave that clown to you... Personnally it's the kind I physically actively avoid IRL and wouldn't piss in his mouth if his gum were on fire... Unfortunately, like hobos and poodles, not exactly easy to shake off after you make eye contact...

[wagyl]

Thank goodness the feeling is mutual. That result is better for us, and better for everyone who is forced to watch, too. We just need to keep that bargain. I am confident I can keep away.

[Yokohammer]

Hey ... a little early, I know ... but it's almost Christmas!

Peace on earth, good will toward all men*, and all that like?

* With the exception of those whose humanity is suspect, like McTotallyfucked.

[Coligny]

I are pinko commie, i has no christmuss...

[Samurai_Jerk]

I are pinko commie, i has no christmuss...

soviet christmas.jpg

Soviet Christmas Cards

[Taro Toporific]

So, it's like for cats. There is a critical minimum height over which the fall is dampened by lift and ground effect.
Study have shown that cats falling from an height (3 to 6-7 floors can't remember) had worse injuries than those falling from upper floors. Once right side up their skin act like a flying wing (sort of like flying sqwiwels maybee).

Remember folks: Your's truly, Flying-Catman Taro, did seven stories* onto a sidewalk and is still here to bore you with the story.

*Gakusai arubaito while in grad school

[matsuki]

Tell me you didn't attempt to land like this??

[Coligny]

I are pinko commie, i has no christmuss...

soviet christmas.jpg

Soviet Christmas Cards

Unless we got confirmation from our local Soviet Supreme I won't believe anything of this lie-full kapitalist pigz propragranda. But thinking back, it might have be a plan all along from my mom to fuck me over my Christmas gifts too... That would explain the weird christmas tree made from empty cheap booze bottles that came out of nowhere every 25 december...

[Mike Oxlong]

Qu'est-ce qui arrive demain?

[Coligny]

Je sais pas... Tu dis arrives comme dans "venir" ou comme dans "se passer" ?

[Mike Oxlong]

Comme dans venir.