Dying in numbers

[kagemusha]

Woman held for fatally abusing 11-year-old daughter with golf club
http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/28-year-old-woman-held-for-fatally-abusing-11-year-old-daughter

It used to be a twice in a year story, then once a month and now on a weekly basis if not daily.
The Chinese don't have to do much but to sit and watch the freak show.

[Russell]

This could become a long thread.

Here another example (a little bit more tasteless).

3 men held for murder, confess to making curry from victim’s remains

After more than three years of searching, Tokyo police thought they had finally gotten a lead on the whereabouts of Kazuyuki Kobayashi, a male restaurant owner who suddenly went missing in May 2009, when an investigation led them to three men who were said to be acquainted with Kobayashi before his disappearance.

The men, who had been arrested on separate charges of fraud earlier this year, were brought to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department for questioning on Sept 27 and were immediately suspected of murder after it was found that Kobayashi has come to them demanding the repayment of an unspecified amount of money he had lent them earlier.

The case then took an even more gruesome turn when, on Monday, two of the suspects confessed that they had stewed the pulverized remains of Kobayashi in a pot of curry.

According to the suspects, after murdering Kobayashi, they dismembered his body and kept in a freezer for roughly one year until, around August of last year, they pulverized his remains with a hammer, grilled them on a barbecue and then cooked them into a batch of curry.

Investigators believe that the suspects may have done this in order to cover up the smell of the body. Curry is known for having a strong smell and would surely be potent enough to neutralize the odor of the “ingredients.”

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Hope it was the shit they served last week to Abe for 3,500 yen a plate...

[matsuki]

yuck...dare I ask what happened to the curry?

[BigInJapan]

Woman held for fatally abusing 11-year-old daughter with golf club
http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/28-year-old-woman-held-for-fatally-abusing-11-year-old-daughter

It used to be a twice in a year story, then once a month and now on a weekly basis if not daily.
The Chinese don't have to do much but to sit and watch the freak show.

Daily, it would seem.
My wife told me about this one last night. What's next...

Kanagawa woman held for murdering two daughters Oct. 04, 2012 - 12:24PM JST
Police and mental health specialists are assessing the criminal liability of a woman who has confessed to stabbing to death her two daughters at their home in Hayama, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Wednesday night.

Edit - added the following (3rd incident in as many days):

Woman arrested for killing newborn baby, leaving body in locker Oct. 04, 2012 - 07:02AM JST
Police said Wednesday they have arrested a 30-year-old woman in Ibaraki on suspicion of killing her newborn baby daughter.

The woman, identified as Miyuki Nagamine, was quoted by police as saying she gave birth to a baby girl in a Tsukuba hotel room in August, NTV reported. She allegedly killed the infant and then left the body in a coin-operated locker.

During police questioning, Nagamine told investigators that she had separated from her husband, was living with her 3-year-old son and that life had been economically tough before the birth, NTV reported. She was quoted as saying she felt she could not offer the baby a decent quality of life.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

yuck...dare I ask what happened to the curry?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/copyranter/human-flesh-meat-market-opens-in-london

[Russell]

Suicide jumpers disrupt train services at Gotanda, Shinjuku

A teenage girl jumped to her death from a platform at Gotanda Station in Tokyo on Thursday morning. On Wednesday night, a man in his 30s jumped off the platform at Shinjuku Station into the path of an incoming train and was killed instantly.

In the Shinagawa incident, the girl, who has not been identified, jumped from the JR Yamanote line platform at about 7:30 a.m., NTV reported. She was wearing her school uniform, witnesses said. Train services were delayed for about 45 minutes, affecting more than 110,000 commuters, JR officials said.

Meanwhile, in Wednesday night’s incident at Shinjuku Station, the man jumped off the platform on the Chuo Line just after 10 p.m., TV Asahi reported. The driver of the train said he saw the man jump and applied the emergency brake but it was too late to prevent the train striking the man.

Station officials said train services were delayed for about 50 minutes, affecting 36,000 passengers.

Fornicate, just imagine to be part of the cleanup crew.

[Mock Cockpit]

yuck...dare I ask what happened to the curry?

Saved it for the autumn festival. Be a step up ime.

[Coligny]

I'd fuck that...

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With a side dish of fried potatoes topped with melting cheeze, camemberg... and bacon... and mayonnaise...

and nutella with pickles...

[matsuki]

Suicide jumpers disrupt train services at Gotanda, Shinjuku

A teenage girl jumped to her death from a platform at Gotanda Station in Tokyo on Thursday morning. On Wednesday night, a man in his 30s jumped off the platform at Shinjuku Station into the path of an incoming train and was killed instantly.

In the Shinagawa incident, the girl, who has not been identified, jumped from the JR Yamanote line platform at about 7:30 a.m., NTV reported. She was wearing her school uniform, witnesses said. Train services were delayed for about 45 minutes, affecting more than 110,000 commuters, JR officials said.

Meanwhile, in Wednesday night’s incident at Shinjuku Station, the man jumped off the platform on the Chuo Line just after 10 p.m., TV Asahi reported. The driver of the train said he saw the man jump and applied the emergency brake but it was too late to prevent the train striking the man.

Station officials said train services were delayed for about 50 minutes, affecting 36,000 passengers.

Fornicate, just imagine to be part of the cleanup crew.

How many of the Yamanote line stations have guard walls now? (last I checked it was 2)

[yanpa]

How many of the Yamanote line stations have guard walls now? (last I checked it was 2)

They're adding them bit-by-bit, there's certainly construction work going on at Shin Okubo and Takadanobaba.

FG thread on the subject.

[matsuki]

How many of the Yamanote line stations have guard walls now? (last I checked it was 2)

They're adding them bit-by-bit, there's certainly construction work going on at Shin Okubo and Takadanobaba.

FG thread on the subject.

Still...huge ass buildings go up here in months all the time. Something as simple as guard walls is taking a pretty insane amount of time. The company I work for here sells those pressurized safety switches for doors that quickly prevent a bus, train, whatever kind of auto door from closing on you or foreign objects. The president was telling me how he made a ton of money off the Keio after some people were splattered by accident at one of their stations and they were being sued. They ended up put pressure sensitive mats all around the bases of the platforms at that station to warn incoming trains that foreign objects (people?) were on the tracks. He said he almost got a contract for all their stations but they opted for the guard wall route instead...and got them in place right away.

[yanpa]

How many of the Yamanote line stations have guard walls now? (last I checked it was 2)

They're adding them bit-by-bit, there's certainly construction work going on at Shin Okubo and Takadanobaba.

FG thread on the subject.

Still...huge ass buildings go up here in months all the time. Something as simple as guard walls is taking a pretty insane amount of time.

Huge ass buildings have huge ass constructions sites which can be used 24/7... JR has 4 hours a night max working in pretty constricted room and have to be damn sure everything is cleared away and the site secured so that people don't fall through the holes they're making in the platform. Also, have you seen how some of the Yamanote line platforms are built? In bits and pieces over many decades with many different construction techniques. I'm not an expert on platform doors or anything but I imagine you can't just plonk them onto any old bit of platform edge - it looks like they're having to rebuild pretty much every platform. Meguro and Ebisu have been rebuilt in the last few years anyway, I guess that's why they did those first.

The company I work for here sells those pressurized safety switches for doors that quickly prevent a bus, train, whatever kind of auto door from closing on you or foreign objects. The president was telling me how he made a ton of money off the Keio after some people were splattered by accident at one of their stations and they were being sued. They ended up put pressure sensitive mats all around the bases of the platforms at that station to warn incoming trains that foreign objects (people?) were on the tracks.

Interesting idea Though I imagine while it would be good for accidental falls, it won't help much if someone falls directly in front of a train (whether accidentally or deliberately).

He said he almost got a contract for all their stations but they opted for the guard wall route instead...and got them in place right away.

Wikipedia sayeth:

京王電鉄

京王線 新宿駅 - 2011年 - 2013年度に設置予定。
京王線 国領駅・布田駅・調布駅 - 2012年8月19日、連続立体交差事業により地下化後使用開始予定。布田駅のみフルスクリーンタイプを使用予定。
京王相模原線 調布駅 - 2012年8月19日、連続立体交差事業により地下化後使用開始予定。

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9B% ... F.E3.83.BC

So there doors in Keio Shinjuku under construction and doors at 国領駅, 布田駅 and 調布駅 which were being reconstructed anyway. Doesn't exactly sound like they've fitted up the whole line overnight...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

They're adding them bit-by-bit, there's certainly construction work going on at Shin Okubo...

Shin Okubo is a strange one. I remember there was an incident there that, I guess, must have been about 10-15 years ago now (couldn't be fucked Googling) where a Korean bloke jumped onto the tracks to save some drunk and about three of them ended up getting run over and killed. I thought that had led to protective barriers being erected, but I guess the Japanese only do that for business reasons.

Don't know what point I'm trying to make, if it all...

[yanpa]

They're adding them bit-by-bit, there's certainly construction work going on at Shin Okubo...

Shin Okubo is a strange one. I remember there was an incident there that, I guess, must have been about 10-15 years ago now (couldn't be fucked Googling) where a Korean bloke jumped onto the tracks to save some drunk and about three of them ended up getting run over and killed. I thought that had led to protective barriers being erected, but I guess the Japanese only do that for business reasons.

Don't know what point I'm trying to make, if it all...

There's a plaque there... Like I said, I'm not exactly an expert on platform edge doors, but I have a the teensiest hunch that installing them is not exactly a case of nipping down to Platform Doors'R'Us and getting a couple of hundred metres to bolt on to the existing platform edge.

[matsuki]

They're adding them bit-by-bit, there's certainly construction work going on at Shin Okubo...

Shin Okubo is a strange one. I remember there was an incident there that, I guess, must have been about 10-15 years ago now (couldn't be fucked Googling) where a Korean bloke jumped onto the tracks to save some drunk and about three of them ended up getting run over and killed. I thought that had led to protective barriers being erected, but I guess the Japanese only do that for business reasons.

Don't know what point I'm trying to make, if it all...

There's a plaque there... Like I said, I'm not exactly an expert on platform edge doors, but I have a the teensiest hunch that installing them is not exactly a case of nipping down to Platform Doors'R'Us and getting a couple of hundred meters to bolt on to the existing platform edge.

Yanpa! I'm not saying it's an overnight type deal. Just that it's insane how long it's taking. Here's a brief timeline:



2001 - Barriers are considered due to suicides on the tracks

2008 - Decision is finally made to install the barriers with construction with the plan of getting all 29 stations retrofitted by 2017

2009 - Between 2002 and 2009, there were 1,253 incidents of people falling onto the tracks or colliding with trains and 80% took place at 100,000-a-day stations. Shinjuku, Shinagawa and Kawasaki are stand-outs.

2012 - 11 years after the barriers are considered and we only have barriers at Ebisu, Meguro and construction at Shin Okubo and Baba? (none of which are particularly notable for a number of incidents) The rogic heeer iszu maindo bottoringu!

hahahaha, sorry I dragged this thread off track! Maybe someone wants to cut this convo and paste it in the appropriate thread?

[Russell]

2009 - Between 2002 and 2009, there were 1,253 incidents of people falling onto the tracks or colliding with trains and 80% took place at 100,000-a-day stations. Shinjuku, Shinagawa and Kawasaki are stand-outs.

hahahaha, sorry I dragged this thread off track! Maybe someone wants to cut this convo and paste it in the appropriate thread?

1,253 incidents...

I say your post fits perfectly in this thread!

[matsuki]

In that case, the other obvious statement is "it took til 2001 for JR to consider barriers?"

Suicide Club came out in 2001....

[Russell]

Body of woman found wrapped in duvet at home

The body of a woman wrapped in a duvet has been found in her home in Chiba City, police said Saturday.

According to police, the body of 65-year-old Sachiko Ashihara was discovered on Friday morning when district court staff visited her property to evict her, Sankei Shimbun reported. Her body was discovered wrapped in a plastic sheet and a duvet. Police say it had been placed on a terry blanket in the center of a room.

Police said that Ashihara’s remains were partially decomposed, but no obvious signs of injury were visible. It is believed that Ashihara shared the apartment with her 38-year-old son, although police say they have not been able to contact the man and that his current whereabouts is unknown, Sankei reported.

Police say they are currently treating the case as one of unauthorized disposal of a corpse.

[Russell]

8-yr-old boy, 65-yr-old man swept away by waves in Hokkaido

An 8-year-old boy and a 65-year-old man went missing on Sunday after being swept away by waves while salmon fishing in Sarufutsu, Hokkaido.

According to police, the boy was fishing with a friend and his friend’s grandfather at about 10 a.m. when a wave swept him away, Sankei Shimbun reported. The grandfather went in to try and save the boy but he, too, was swept away, police said.

Police continued their search all Sunday afternoon but were unable to find either the boy or the man.

[Russell]

Man arrested for fatally stabbing sleeping roommate

KANI, Gifu -- A man has been arrested for fatally stabbing his roommate at their apartment here while the victim was asleep, police said.

Hayato Goto, 24, a convenience store worker, stands accused of murdering Masatoshi Mizuno, 26, a company employee. Goto admitted to the allegations during questioning, investigators said.

"I grabbed a knife in the kitchen and stabbed him while he was asleep," Goto was quoted as saying during questioning. "I was regularly scolded by Mizuno."

Noting that Mizuno was a senior student at a junior high school Goto had been enrolled in, investigators said they believe that the suspect was angry with his subordinate relationship with the victim.

Moreover, investigators suspect that Goto, who is of a relatively smaller build compared to his victim, attacked Mizuno while he was asleep.

Goto allegedly stabbed Mizuno in the victim's bedroom on the second floor of their home in Kani sometime between the night of Oct. 5 and the predawn hours of Oct. 6, local police said. An autopsy has found that Mizuno died of blood loss.

Quizzz: what is the police measuring at 0:40 to 0:45?

[matsuki]

Quizzz: what is the police measuring at 0:40 to 0:45?

Trick question? (Doesn't matter what is being measured as long as he looks busy

[kagemusha]

Quizzz: what is the police measuring at 0:40 to 0:45?

'I wonder if it fits in my shoebox apaarto downtown'?

[Russell]

Quizzz: what is the police measuring at 0:40 to 0:45?

Trick question? (Doesn't matter what is being measured as long as he looks busy

Yeah, but I found this one particularly funny.

A guy was killed inside, and this cop measures something completely unrelated at the outside of the home.

What is he going to do? Record all dimensions of this house, inside and outside?!?

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Quizzz: what is the police measuring at 0:40 to 0:45?

Trick question? (Doesn't matter what is being measured as long as he looks busy

Yeah, but I found this one particularly funny.

A guy was killed inside, and this cop measures something completely unrelated at the outside of the home.

What is he going to do? Record all dimensions of this house, inside and outside?!?

Taking measurements is, along with telling people to turn their bicycle lights on, one of the most important duties a Japanese police officer can perform.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Aomori man arrested over suspected imprisonment of woman found dead

Takashi Kuwano, 38, called police the same day and reported that he had found the woman he was living with dead upon his return from work. Police arrived to discover a 31-year-old woman face-down in Kuwano's apartment kitchen, with a dog collar and wire lead nearby. The officers arrested Kuwano at the scene on suspicion of keeping the woman captive, and allege he had tied her up with the collar and lead from around 11 a.m. to 7:25 p.m. that day.

According to police, the suspect has stated he and the woman had been living together for about a year, and that the woman was alive when he left for work. Based on examination of the body, investigators believe the woman died sometime within the few days before Kuwano's call to police. There were some signs of external injury, but none of malnutrition or other physical weakening. An autopsy was planned for as early as Oct. 6.

Police believe Kuwano used an around four-meter-long wire attached to the collar on one end and a metal bar on the other to restrain the woman, and that Kuwano removed the collar before officers arrived.

I saw a story on this on one of the morning shows before work today. According to what they said the lead was only 2 m long (which wasn't long enough to reach the toilet) and the woman was nude. However that would have been long enough to to open the kitchen window and scream for help and they were wondering if she could have got her hands on a kitchen knife or something. Assuming he really didn't kill her on purpose I wonder if the guy was drugging her when he went out so she would keep quiet and maybe gave her too strong of a dose that day. I guess she could also have been a willing participant in a sick fantasy that died of natural causes or some kind of accident.

[kagemusha]

A guy was killed inside, and this cop measures something completely unrelated at the outside of the home.

I'm not surprised.
Years ago we had a shared case with Shizouka finest. Two of their detectives flew over to the other side of the continent to join us in the investigation.
On our way to conduct a simple talk with one of the witnesses the two guys took any possible pictures during the drive, out on the street, at the entrance of the guy's house, the door, etc.
Later on they sent us their documents - books full of pictures, unrelated data and facts but very little substantial material.

[Russell]

86-year-old ex-cop found dead in house after killing woman with sword

A former police officer suspected of killing a woman with a sword was found dead in the victim’s house in Tokyo’s Setagaya Ward on Wednesday afternoon. TV media showed police outside the house during the standoff at Nozawa 1-chome in Setagaya.

According to police, the 86-year-old man, identified as Shigemasu Tokunaga, slashed Setsuko Kubo, 62, in the neck with a sword on the street at about 11:30 a.m. Kubo was taken to hospital but was pronounced dead at 1 p.m., according to Fuji TV.

Tokunaga, who lived across the street from Kubo, apparently broke into Kubo’s house and refused to come out or negotiate with police. When police entered the house at 1:40 p.m., they found Tokunaga lying near the entrance, bleeding from wounds to his neck, Fuji reported. He died shortly afterwards, police said.

Local residents said that Kubo and Tokunaga had been quarreling since May. Prior to the attack, Kubo had called 110 to report that her neighbor was spraying pesticide on her, Fuji reported.

[wuchan]

86-year-old ex-cop found dead in house after killing woman with sword When police entered the house at 1:40 p.m., they found Tokunaga lying near the entrance, bleeding from wounds to his neck, Fuji reported. He died shortly afterwards, police said.

did it wrong.

[BigInJapan]

did it wrong.

Evidently. Obviously he wasn't versed in correct methods and tools for seppuku.
I'm guessing he used a katana instead of the shorter tanto or wakizashi.
It would still take an insane amount of nerve to attempt to cut one's own throat though, damn.
Quite unfortunate that he took someone else's life beforehand.