I once watched a tv show with “true crime” stories. One of the stories was of a woman who accidentally broke the thin plaster wall between her apartment and her next door neighbor’s. She only broke a little of it, but enough to see how much nicer his apartment was than hers, he had a…
After someone wrote a comment on her blog telling her to die, a high school girl hanged herself. Although this is most probably another case of bullying that also took place in school as well, the school will deny that any bullying took place in order to avoid the wrath of the bereaved’s lawyers and…
I don’t want to seem too morbid, but I could write multiple blog entries every day if I just wrote about all the suicides in Japan. This one is also a little unique because the 29 year old woman was on her way back from a vacation in Honolulu. Some people who had been sitting…
Here is a crazy thing I found tooling around on youtube. It’s the very old live action Spiderman tv show that used to air in japan. Some people may have seen it before somewhere (I heard some footage was used on the Jimmy Kimmel show for a parody.) Anyway, let’s take a break from all…
Ako Kawada, a well known announcer in Japan committed suicide in her car on the 26th by inhaling the fumes from burning charcoal. Lately she had apparently been writing some negative things on her official blog showing signs of depression. She was found in the morning in her white Mercedes-Benz. What will it take for…
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…
A long story can be told very short here. The District Court judge from Utsunomiya was arrested for sending emails from internet cafes and other places asking a woman in her 20s to go out with him. One bit of interesting information that shows the extent of the wackiness of the stalking is that he…
So a kid got a capsule toy out of the vending machine here. The capsules toys are called “gashapon” in Japanese… you can find them everywhere. Some of them have interesting toys or balls, most of them are very disappointing. The kid, 2 years and 10 months old) got a ball out of a machine…
Back to the hydrogen sulfide suicides, another recent big news story is that an adult film star named Miyuki Asao. She recently killed herself after talking to a tabloid magazine about her exploits having slept with 50 famous people, most of whom were young popular comedians. She was 22 years old. At the time of…
First a bit about the hydrogen sulfide suicides… I don’t really want to get into details, but in a nutshell, there are two readily available products for the home that you can easily buy which, when mixed together, produce enough hydrogen sulfide to kill people. Recently, there have been so many suicides using this method…
The link to the article is right here. It’s entirely in Japanese, but there are some graphs you may be able to understand with a little Japanese ability. To put it straight, the article is not a very good piece of scholarship, the first graph the article provides (on the first page of the link…
First of all, full disclosure.I did my driver’s license in Hyogo Prefecture… I got it on the third try. First I’ll start off by telling you exactly how I failed the first two times. Very simple actually… Failure One: I ran a stop sign… Sounds kind of stupid, but it took me this experience to…