southofreality
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Posts: 579
Location: Tokyo
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 Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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| TK4Lakers wrote: |
But I don't think you can really compare and connect this minister's suicide to that of Japanese history. |
There might be a loose connection. Who knows? I'll leave that alone, though.
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| The minister had nobody force this suicide on him except himself, so in a way, he is a coward, and whereas people may have looked at seppuku as "honorable," I don't think anybody is applauding this minister's way of death. |
Nobody's saying his suicide solution was honorable, not even the Japanese media. But they're not really condemning the suicide act itself. In the face of this, and the countless other suicides that have been reported in the media here lately, you'd think that public service announcements directed at troubled youths as well as financially strapped, middle-aged salarymen would air on TV here, but they don't really. |
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