netrek said...

netrek at 02:43 PM JST - 2nd June

God forbid this narcissistic couple should pry their eyes away from their precious manga while their 2 year old child DROWNS TO DEATH only feet away! This is absolutely disgusting! They have no business being parents ToT

Posted in 2-yr-old boy drowns in drain while parents are in comic cafe at 02:43 PM JST - 2nd June
netrek at 02:39 PM JST - 2nd June

I wonder how involved the parents were in this girl's day-to-day life? Seems many parents chat to their kids a few minutes at night and on the weekend and that's it! Especially if both parents work. Very sad.

Posted in 16-year-old girl hangs herself after message on blog tells her to die at 02:39 PM JST - 2nd June
netrek at 02:34 PM JST - 2nd June

Whoa another suicide? Like I said it seems there is some new suicide story every day here on JT. How sad. She must've had undiagnosed/untreated mental illness.

Posted in 16-year-old girl hangs herself after message on blog tells her to die at 02:34 PM JST - 2nd June
netrek at 01:48 PM JST - 31st May

Disgusting!

Posted in Mass grave of murdered children found in Peru at 01:48 PM JST - 31st May
netrek at 01:47 PM JST - 31st May

I wonder what the suicide rate is in North Korea?

Posted in Japanese woman found hanged aboard KAL plane at 01:47 PM JST - 31st May
netrek at 01:45 PM JST - 31st May

Seems I can't go a day reading JT without reading about a new case of suicide or murder-suicide.

Posted in 6 family members killed as minivan plunges into sea in Kumamoto at 01:45 PM JST - 31st May
netrek at 01:43 PM JST - 31st May

rranta I agree. It is very tragic. I think with sucide cases there are often warning signs. Perhaps employers and friends and family can be better educated to become sensitive to such signs. In the US a person can be involuntarily committed for a time if they are deemed a…

Posted in Suicides in Japan certain to top 30,000 for 10th straight year at 01:43 PM JST - 31st May
netrek at 01:33 PM JST - 31st May

He should sue the tobacco companies and everyone in his town who smokes with assault. There is a ticking legal timebomb. If the developed nations ever allow class actions lawsuits by innocent victims of second hand smoke it could destroy the entire industry overnight. But the damn politicians will make…

Posted in WHO honors Shizuoka boy ostracized over anti-smoking campaign at 01:33 PM JST - 31st May
netrek at 01:03 PM JST - 31st May

rjd_jr contrast postwar Germany's actions regarding the people they victimized with that of Japan's. The Japanese govt. refuses to acknowledge large parts of agreed upon history (by just about every reputable historian in the war whos studies WWII), they are publishing textbooks which deliberately are revisionistic and distort history, they…

Posted in From war to peace - Japanese style at 01:03 PM JST - 31st May
netrek at 12:49 PM JST - 31st May

“Attack from whom? From those the United States threatens?”

Oh please. Lets break out the blankets, hold hands and sing Kumbaya!

The author is extremely naive. Yes it's fine to extoll the virtues of peace, and what sane person would not prefer a state of peace to war but she…

Posted in From war to peace - Japanese style at 12:49 PM JST - 31st May