Horrible and disturbing, to say the least. What a fall Japan has taken, from being the leader in everything electronic and technical at one point in time to this! Chilling stuff!
Japan's chilling Internet suicide pacts
June 10 - The discovery Sunday of the bodies of four young Japanese men in a car at a vista point near Mount Fuji appears to be more evidence of a grim new trend in the prosperous country - group suicides of strangers who meet over the Internet. The suicide pacts, which have resulted in at least 18 deaths since February, are shocking to experts, even in a nation plagued by an astronomical suicide rate.Posted by shanti at June 10, 2003 2:53 PM
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Japan has always a high suicide rate, especially among the young. The pressure to conform in a homogenous culture like Japan is quite difficult; and more so for people you reside outside accepted norms of behaviors— i.e. rebels.
Posted by: Niraj at June 10, 2003 3:16 PM
I think the traditions of “Harakiri” don’t exacly teach the kids the value of life. For us Indians especially, it must seem strange that another country supposedly so much more developed than us can be that suffocatingly traditional. The bad economy must be adding to it also, I would think.
Posted by: Shanti at June 10, 2003 3:30 PM