Nine to go! (suicide party cars)

[FG Lurker]

[dimwit]

Chalk another three up for charcoal briquettes. Available at Donkihote. Special discount for suicidists.

The man was from Tochigi Prefecture, while the girls were an 18-year-old high school student from Saitama Prefecture and a 16-year-old part-time worker from Tokyo. The three are believed to have died of asphyxiation as two charcoal stoves with some pieces of briquette coal were found in the car, the police said

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=&id=336571

[Captain Japan]

Five found dead in parked vehicle in Mie campground
Kyodo Via Japan Today

TSU — Two men and three women were found dead Thursday in a vehicle parked near a campground in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture. Police said the five apparently died of carbon monoxide poisoning as four charcoal stoves with burnt briquettes were found under the seats of the vehicle, whose windows were sealed up.

The man in the front passenger seat was believed to be a 19-year-old university student from Saitama Prefecture. Another man, in the middle seat, was a 47-year-old local resident. The other person in the middle seat was a woman, while two other women were in the back seat. Police said they must have died several days earlier. (Kyodo News)

[L S]

That really pisses me off that the woman had to take her 3 children with her.....simple selfish fucking murder. I would bitch slap her if she wasn't dead.

[L S]

On second thought.....maybe I would bitch slap her corpse just to get the point across....

[GuyJean]

On second thought.....maybe I would bitch slap her corpse just to get the point across....

Do it publicly, and I think you would.. And get arrested.

GJ

[Buraku]

[Blah Pete]

Four people were found dead in a rental car parked in a lot at the scenic Chugu Shrine in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, on Monday night in a suspected case of group suicide involving charcoal stoves, police said.

So, anyone think that car will be rented out again?

[FG Lurker]

Four people were found dead in a rental car parked in a lot at the scenic Chugu Shrine in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, on Monday night in a suspected case of group suicide involving charcoal stoves, police said.

So, anyone think that car will be rented out again?

Sure! Just spray a bucket of that fa-breeze shit around in there and no one'll ever know.

[Blah Pete]

Sure! Just spray a bucket of that fa-breeze shit around in there and no one'll ever know. Wink

Or maybe one of those christmas tree shaped air fresheners like in
Repo Man

[Captain Japan]

Okinawa trio in mysterious mass hanging
Mainichi

NAHA -- A man and two women have been found hanged in a deserted warehouse on the island of Kitadaito, possibly as a result of a group suicide pact, police said.

Identities of the three remain unknown, but they are all believed to have been in their 20s or 30s.

They are not believed to have been residents of the island, which is a tourist area.

Police said a woman called them Sunday to report finding three bodies hanged side by side in the storehouse....more...

Infanticide suspect one of bizarre Okinawa mass suicide victims
Mainichi

NAHA -- A woman whose strangled daughter's body was found stuffed in the cupboard of her Niigata home was one of the three victims of a mysterious suicide on remote Kitadaito island over the weekend, police said.

Naomi Tanaka, 34, unemployed of Niigata, was one of the three bodies found hanged in a warehouse on the remote tourist resort on Sunday.

Tanaka, who had been missing, had been sought for questioning by police after the body of her 6-year-old daughter, Koyuki, had been found stuffed in the cupboard of her Niigata home some 1,500 kilometers away from where the mother was found dead....more...

[Buraku]

[Captain Japan]

Suicides in 2004 top 30,000 for 7th straight year

(Kyodo) _ Suicides in Japan topped 30,000 for the seventh straight year in 2004, with men accounting for more than two-thirds of the number, according to a report released by the National Police Agency on Thursday.
A total of 32,325 people committed suicide last year, down 2,102, or 6.1 percent, from 2003, when there was a record high of 34,427 suicides, the report said.

Men, at 23,272, accounted for more than 70 percent of those who killed themselves. People of both sexes aged 40 or older who committed suicide numbered 23,868.

The report said 47.8 percent of the people who killed themselves were unemployed, and nearly 8,000 are believed to have committed suicide due to economic or livelihood difficulties.

The number of people who committed suicide with others they got to know through the Internet grew by 21 from the previous year to 55 in 2004, the report said....more...

[sludge]

The number of people who committed suicide in 2004 surpassed 30,000 for the seventh year in a row, although the figure slightly dropped from the previous year, the National Police Agency (NPA) said on Thursday.
Nearly half of those in their 50s killed themselves for "economic reasons," reflecting the hardships middle-aged and elderly people are experiencing due to the sluggish economy.
In 2004, 32,325 people committed suicide, down 2,102, or 6.1 percent, from the previous year, the NPA's survey showed.
Of them, 23,272 were men and 9,053 were women.
By age, those in their 60s or over topped the list with 10,994, followed by those in their 50s at 7,772 and those in the 40s at 5,102.
Of the people who committed suicide in their 50s, 2,864 left suicide notes.
A total of 1,341 wrote that economic hardships forced them to commit suicide. Of the total number, 14,786 committed suicide because of health problems. The number of suicides reached a record 34,427 in 2003. (Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, June 2, 2005)

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[Captain Japan]

Student suspected of fatally stabbing self in stomach
Mainichi

A vocational school student who was found dead at his Tokyo apartment Wednesday with a knife stuck in his chest is highly likely to have committed suicide, police said.

Investigators who examined his body found several stab wounds in the stomach, and said they believe that he stabbed himself.

The 25-year-old student was found dead in his apartment in the Nishiazabu district of Minato-ku by a relative who visited his room Wednesday morning, Tokyo police said. He was lying face-up on the floor of the kitchen and was naked when he was found.

A knife was stuck in the man's chest. His room was not ransacked. (Mainichi)

[FG Lurker]

Hmm, wonder if he tried to commit harakiri?

At least he had the balls to not buy a hibachi, some plastic sheets, and roll of tape! Who says Japanese can't be individualistic?

[Captain Japan]

[Taro Toporific]

Carbon monoxide: Poison gas or anti-inflammatory drug?
medicalnewstoday.com, 29 Jul 2005
Carbon monoxide, a poisonous gas that kills thousands of Americans every year, could turn out to be a life-saver for patients recovering from organ transplants, strokes or heart attacks, according to new research....
....scientists discovered they could rescue the mice by having them inhale CO-enriched air (100 ppm) for two weeks after transplantation, or by giving them a drug that induces high levels of Hmox expression.
"We found that naturally occurring levels of the Hmox enzyme were not high enough to prevent airway occlusion in mice after transplant," says Hiroaki Harada, M.D., a U-M research fellow and co-first author of the study. "We had to either use drugs to boost Hmox expression in the mice or boost its end-product with prolonged inhalation of carbon monoxide."
"Carbon monoxide is lethal at certain doses, but the animals tolerated the 100 ppm level for two weeks with no apparent problems.....In human terms, it's equivalent to the amount you'd receive sitting in a traffic jam in Mexico City."...more....
...The research study was supported by grants from the U.S. Public Health Service. Kanji Minamoto, M.D., a former Columbia University research fellow now at Okayama University in Japan

[Captain Japan]

LPD politician Yoji Nagaoka hangs himself
Mainichi

Diet politician Yoji Nagaoka of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) died hours after he attempted to hang himself at his home in Tokyo on Monday morning, sources said.

Nagoka, 54, who belonged to the LDP's in-house faction led by Shizuka Kamei, voted for a bill set to privatize Japan's postal system during a House of Representatives vote on July 5.

Some members of the faction reportedly criticized Nagaoka and other politicians in the same faction for voting for the bill....more...

[Taro Toporific]

LPD politician Yoji Nagaoka hangs himself....more...

Lawmaker's death darkens Japan's political drama
SignOnSanDiego.com/REUTERS, 10:26 a.m. August 1, 2005
TOKYO ---Political infighting over plans to privatise Japan's postal system turned nasty on Monday when some ruling party rebels said a lawmaker had killed himself due to government pressure to support the legislation.
...Koizumi has made the legislation to privatise the postal delivery, savings and insurance system, including the world's biggest bank, the centrepiece of his reform platform. But many lawmakers in his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) have relied on rural postmasters to mobilise voters and on the postal savings funds for public works to keep constituencies happy.
They therefore oppose the privatisation bills, which would split up Japan Post, with a network of almost 25,000 post offices and about $3 trillion in assets, and sell off its shares by 2017.....
In a possible sign of the mounting pressures, an LDP lower house member was found hanged at his Tokyo home on Monday in an apparent suicide, police said, declining to give further details.
Yoji Nagaoka, 54, opposed the bills at an LDP party meeting but voted in favour in parliament.
Media reports said no suicide note was found.
Nagaoka's secretary was quoted by Kyodo news agency as saying he had been upset by the fact that some weekly magazines had called him a traitor for his actions....more...

[Buraku]

[Somerandomgaijin]

Not being a political gaikokujinsama; which will incur more cost, private, or public?

Example- Johnny Gaijinsama wants to send a package to mom.
Johnny uses the current system, and spends 3,000 yen for 1kg for an E.M.S. delivery in a 3-day guarantee delivery.

Johnny uses the privatized system and spends....?



Bottom-line, which will cost the most?

[Taro Toporific]

Johnny uses the current system, and spends 3,000 yen for 1kg for an E.M.S. delivery in a 3-day guarantee delivery.

Johnny uses the privatized system and spends....??

He spends about the same but Japan Post is closer to the rice ranch, safer and he is served by his childhood friend.

(Taro always uses Japan Post since the takubin delivery of Valentine choko caused my broken leg.)

[Taro Toporific]

Man held in killing of would-be suicide
The Yomiuri Shimbun, 08/06/2005, OSAKA---
.....Maeue sent an e-mail to Nagamoto, who had connected to the suicide site in December, proposing that they commit suicide by burning charcoal inside a sealed car to cause carbon monoxide poisoning.
Maeue allegedly contacted the woman about 20 times via e-mail, sending Nagamoto pictures of the place he had chosen for them to commit suicide and asking to buy the charcoal needed. He pretended to be a prospective suicide, but apparently had no intention of taking his own life, source said.
Maeue sent Nagamoto e-mails with false names from several Internet cafes to conceal his identity and directed her to delete the e-mails she received from him, according to the sources....more....

[Mulboyne]

Reuters: Japan internet providers to inform on suicide posts
Japan's communications and Internet services industry is planning to provide police information on people who post messages suggesting they may be close to committing suicide. Four communications industry groups have worked out guidelines for submitting the information, which could include the names and addresses of such people, Kyodo news agency reported on Thursday...more...

[Buraku]

Just two days before a Hyogo Prefecture official was to receive a verdict in a case where he was charged with molesting a woman who worked under him, he committed suicide by allowing himself to be hit by an oncoming train, police said.

[Greji]

Reuters: Japan internet providers to inform on suicide posts
Japan's communications and Internet services industry is planning to provide police information on people who post messages suggesting they may be close to committing suicide. Four communications industry groups have worked out guidelines for submitting the information, which could include the names and addresses of such people, Kyodo news agency reported on Thursday...more...

Well get your FG card ready. They will be calling us in for our two threads on the topic.

Blinky will probably be there to make a speech! See you all in the butabako!

[Mulboyne]

Telegraph: Strangers die after suicide pact on internet
Two strangers who met online killed themselves in what is thought to be Britain's first internet suicide pact. Christopher Aston, 25, of Liverpool, and Maria Williams, 42, also known as Sanchez, from Deptford, south-east London, were found slumped in a car in a retail park in London with a tray of burning charcoal. They had died of carbon monoxide poisoning...Tony Cox, of the Parents for Prevention of Young Suicide charity, said the incident highlighted the need for greater regulation of the internet.

[Captain Japan]

Insurance firms take steps to stop people committing suicide for payouts
Mainichi

Major life insurance firms have extended the minimum eligibility period before families of policyholders who commit suicide can receive benefits.

Sources said that this is apparently a countermeasure to curb the alarming trend of people committing suicide to pay their debts with the insurance payout.

Up until around 1999, a policyholder who committed suicide needed only to have belonged to an insurance scheme for a year for their family to be eligible for a payout.

Most companies extended this minimum eligibility period to two years, sometime around 2000. American Family Insurance, however, extended the period to three years.

Since 2004, Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co., Sumitomo Life Insurance Co., and Nippon Life Insurance Co. have extended the period to three years. Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co. followed suit in October this year....more...

[Taro Toporific]

American Family Insurance, however, extended the period to three years

Despite it's popularity here, American Family Insurance is infamous for refusing payouts on both home and life---a State of Colorado insurance regulator I know found pattern of delayed/denied payouts nearly double that of State Farm Insurance (he was ordered to surpress that info by his Republican overloards).