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  Nippon5 at 09:29 AM JST - 5th August

  Suicide is just stupid. Murder suicide is a crime. When will Japanese people figure out that they can work out thier problems with out ending thier own or others lives. My wives uncle just committed suicide because he couldnt make the same amount of money he was making ten years ago.. He was making good money still just not as much as before. I watched his son's, and his mother's hearts rip when they found out he died. The reason he did it was plain and simple it was easier to kill himself then to workout his problems in a intelligent way. He was wrong to do it but atleast he didnt follow this very stupid idea of taking innocent people with him.

  I hope that Japanese people of this new generation have the intelligence and the sense to stop this stupid practice. I know I have talked to my kids about suicide and explained to them that we can always frind a solution to our problems without doing suicide..

  Some people will say that its normal for Japanese to not leave the kids or a mother/father for the rest of the family to take care of but thats just the cowards answer to this problem... I would hope that Japanese as a people are intelligent enough to understand life and what it means, if not then as a people Japanese are doomed because life isnt going to get easier any time soon for Japan.

  I feel for the rest of the family that had to endure this tragic time.

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  Crucades at 09:53 AM JST - 5th August

  Suicide happens all over the world, it is only ever considered Japanese "phenomena" because of the high incidence of report.

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  JavaChip at 10:34 AM JST - 5th August

  I understand suicide caused by a psychological state of depression, or by a relationship gone bad, or something similar. But suicide caused by economical difficulties... I don't know, but it just sounds like cowardice to me. Taking the easy way out, basically... 'cuz figuring out the problem and working your way out of the financial pit just takes too much work, and resetting oneself is the culturally-accepted (moreover, expected) thing to do.

  Hmmm... as some other poster was saying yesterday in a similar case, maybe what Japanese people need is a guilt-inducing campaign in the media attacking this whole suicide culture, but it must be difficult to reverse such a deeply embedded mentality...

  I still have hope for the young ones, but something's gotta change. Stop saying suicide is okay, cuz it ain't!

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  serindipity at 11:04 AM JST - 5th August

  Disgraceful! This whole country should have a huge banner of shame put over it. Random stabbings, murder suicides, government corruption, an education system that is a corrupt joke, child and spousal abuse. These things happen in other countries too, but not with the prolificness or obscurity that they happen in Japan. Is this really a developed country or is it some back-water in-bread society with no moral fiber what-so-ever? Shame Japan! Shame!!!

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  USAPatriot at 11:07 AM JST - 5th August

  I agree with serindiity.

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  flammenwerfer at 11:07 AM JST - 5th August

  that is sad, truly sad.

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  delitachan at 12:42 PM JST - 5th August

  I'm interested in knowing just WHY is it that Japanese feel the need to take this way out (of thier problems)? Is the pressures of everyday really that overwhelming? This all makes me feel so sad for them, especially the young children who probably had no say in the matter.

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  Proffessor at 02:02 PM JST - 5th August

  Tenth on the world list but number one among the developed countries.

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  telecasterplayer at 03:14 PM JST - 5th August

  Is there some sort of shift in the attitude on suicide? Didn't suicide used to be an individual thing in Japan, not an American-style "I'll take 'em all with me" thing? I mean, a person would walk in front of a train, or go off to the 'sea of trees'. It does seem from news reports that murder-suicide is rising.

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  TRUTHxHURTS at 03:18 PM JST - 5th August

  　I am sorry for the wife and the children. But the man did a cowardly act. Taking his whole family out. Hmmmm COWARD.

  I do not know the whole story. But he couldn't get help if he tried. Who would he talk to ?

  His co workers would just laugh at him or take him to a bar and drink the pain away.

  His mother or father ? They would just give him the saki bottle too.

  His wife ? Maybe his wife would just laugh and go shopping at the GINZA ? Who knows what triggered this man to do this.

  But I know it is hot here today. People tend to kill more people during the summer season. I do not know why ?

  Maybe it is the ANIMAL INSTINCT IN US humans ?

  I wish I could speak PERFECT Japanese. So I can talk to this person and maybe talk him about his problems.

  All over the world people do this all the time For attention, religious association, OR SELFISH MOTIVATION

  people like him need help available consuling. someone to talk too. besides a doctor

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  chinpira at 04:14 PM JST - 5th August

  Always so easy for the police to jump to the suicide conclusion. Must make their job so much easier.... wouldn't want to have an embarrassing unresolved case file....

  Is it normal for a co-worker to call the police when a worker is late for work?? "check the house" the co-worker asks.... suspect no.1 - the co-worker!

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  stanoue at 07:57 PM JST - 5th August

  Haha chinpira - I agree with you, think how easy it would be to top someone you didn't like in Japan. Just fake a murder-suicide - everyone is oh so happy to assume that is what every tragic death in Japan is, anyway.

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  pointofview at 10:47 AM JST - 6th August

  Another sad case. Problem is noone really gives a hoot in this country about anything controversial or corrupt unless it has a foreign edge to it. These stories are just gossip in Japan and only give people an opportunity to say "so desu ne or kawai so." It`s a shame that no work is being done socially, politically etc. to reduce these kinds of problems. This is the most passive country when it comes to domestic affairs. Very sad.

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  skippermutt at 03:13 PM JST - 6th August

  I would investigate thier friends,only someone who new thier living paterns could have faked this. And its not only Japan,the USA has loony murders by the hour.Many Japanese can not look from the outside in,,so you have much to be proud of Americans can learn much from you. No, this is more of a global quest for destruction unfortunatlly.

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  kawaiitenshi at 02:39 PM JST - 9th August

  who said it was the husband. could have been the wife... or even one of the sons! then again it could have been another person. if they were found lying over each other wouldn't that suggest that perhaps they were trying to protect each other from something? doesn't have that typical murder/ suicide feeling to the story... which as usual has hardly any info.

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