woman strangles 13 year old autistic daughter
Mother claims she had planned to kill herself afterwards. Does she expect some kind of sympathy or consideration for that announcement?
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Here’s the scoop on the drama, just in case you don’t actually have a tv under the rock in Japan where you live… but maybe that’s too extreme. I’m sure there are plenty of people in Japan who don’t know about Gokusen. So here’s the ad for the show… if you’re even slightly interested, I…
So I’m watching tv tonight, having dinner… I’m watching Kin-Suma(Kinyobi Smap) and they were doing a profile of different women with interesting careers. One woman was a woman who test drives the new models of Nissan cars. Another woman was an ex-champion table tennis player. Yet another woman came on wearing a black suit. A…
I am surprised that this case is not getting a lot more airtime than it has otherwise, but if you really think about it, Hawaii is a big travel destination for people in Japan. Now is the time most people are shopping for tickets for package tours to Hawaii and other such destinations because the…
The story in English on Mainichi can be found here:“Exec arrested for saving naked photo of junior high school girl on his mobile phone” It says the guy met the girl online (probably on one of the cell phone dating cites) then offered her a million yen to send him a photo. He got the…
The title should say it all, but sadly it doesn’t. The teacher in question is a pregnant woman in her thirties. She works at a junior high school in Handa City in Aichi Prefecture. During the beginning of third term (January) this year she scolded some students in club. She also did a seating change…
First off, what I refer to as pop-Japanology is the phenomenon of people all over the world, including scholars and otherwise reputable journalists to feel comfortable making generalizations about Japan without any fact checking. CNN has featured an article about the Sumo Bullying/Murder case that happened back in June. Arrests were made around February 8th…