netrek said...

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
netrek at 12:39 PM JST - 31st May

Better to have a doting mother than to be spend one's childhood being raised by nannies, babysitters, daycare centers etc. I thank God my mother was there every day when we came home from school. You can't put a price tag on that. Having a strong relationship with one's mother…

Posted in For Japanese men, dysfunction starts in the cradle at 12:39 PM JST - 31st May
netrek at 11:00 AM JST - 28th May

rranta how then do you account for the long established tradition of hari-kiri and seppuku in Japan? "Death before dishonor" sort of mentality is not some new, modern invention in the the Japanese psyche.

Posted in Suicides in Japan certain to top 30,000 for 10th straight year at 11:00 AM JST - 28th May
netrek at 10:57 AM JST - 28th May

Disgusting.

Posted in Are young males losing interest in commercial sex? at 10:57 AM JST - 28th May
netrek at 10:54 AM JST - 28th May

I'm so sick of South Korea and Japan bashing the US for helping then defend themselves. We should have pulled all US troops out of Korea and Japan a long time ago. If we had Japan and South Korea would now be part of the North's empire. But if we…

Posted in Japan unlikely to follow U.S. on defense at 10:54 AM JST - 28th May