SUICIDE CLUB~ THE MOVIE...IS IT ALL REAL!!!

AS I HAVE WRITTEN BEFORE AND PUT UP OUR WEEKLY NEWS FROM JAPAN~ THERE IS VERY DISTURBING NEWS COMING FROM JAPAN~ I TRY NOT TO POST UP THE NEGATIVES OR TRY TO AVOID THE NEWS ALL TOGETHER~ BUT OUR BELOVED JAPAN IS FALLING APART~ IS JAPAN'S SOCIETY ON THE BRINK~ VERY DISTURBING NEWS FROM THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN~ MANY COMMITING SUICIDE EVERYDAY~ ALARMING NEWS FOR US ALL~ GENKI SHOCK DOES NOT LIKE TO POINT FINGERS, BUT I, ZAK SAMURAI BLAMES THE PUPPET REGIME IN TOKYO~

Japan sees wave of suicides using detergent-produced gas

TOKYO `At least four people killed themselves Friday by inhaling fumes from a detergent mixed with other chemicals amid a wave of similar suicides that has reportedly claimed about 50 lives this month in Japan.

Authorities are alarmed by the sudden rise in such incidents ? an average of two a day were reported in April ? because the chemicals are easy to get and the fumes could spread to affect bystanders or rescuers.
A 47-year-old man killed himself Friday in a Tokyo luxury hotel, said Fire Department official Toshiyuki Miyake.

Officials said emergency workers also found a 29-year-old man dead in his Tokyo apartment; a man in his 50s at a public gymnasium in northern Tokyo; and a man in his 30s in an apartment in nearby Yokohama. All died after inhaling hydrogen sulfide gas, produced by mixing detergent and a bath lotion.
A riot policeman at the Narita International Airport near Tokyo also shot himself in the head in an apparent suicide Friday, said airport police spokesman Masaru Miyamoto.
The government has been battling to contain the country's alarmingly high suicide rate. The government said 32,155 people killed themselves in 2006. Japan has a population of 128 million.

"Suicides using hydrogen sulfide have surged in April," said Eri Okuda, a spokeswoman for the country's Fire and Disaster Management Agency. "It's so easy to obtain the ingredients and anyone can use them."
Fire Department spokesman Toshiyuki Miyake said the trend "initially started from Internet sites, where people exchanged information about how to do it."
"We haven't found an effective way to prevent it," he said.
The Kyodo News agency said its tally of such deaths reached at least 49 in April ? after a monthly average of 3-4 earlier this year. No police figures were available.

The 47-year-old man found at The Peninsula Tokyo hotel had left a sign reading "beware of hydrogen sulfide" on the room's door, which was locked from inside, police and fire department officials said. Bottles of cleanser and liquid bath lotion were on the bathroom floor.
In the Yokohama suicide, the man was found dead in a bathroom. Rescuers rushed to his apartment after a neighbor reported an odor from the gas, which slightly sickened three neighbors and forced 70 others to be evacuated, said city Fire Department official Hiroatsu Fujii.
Hydrogen sulfide is colorless and characterized by an odor similar to rotten eggs. When inhaled it can lead to suffocation or brain damage.

Alarmed by the growing trend, the Japan Pharmaceutical Association instructed drugstores across the nation to avoid the bulk sale of the chemicals that could produce the deadly gas and to ask customers their intended use.
Annual suicides in Japan first surpassed 30,000 per year in 1998, near the height of an economic slump that left many people jobless, bankrupt and desperate.
The government has set aside $220 million for anti-suicide programs to help those with depression and other troubles.

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Japan in need of moral education

Moral education would seem to be a subject that is on everyone?s lips right now, unfortunately for the wrong reasons. The fact that moral behavior is declining rapidly can no longer be avoided.
On a local level here in Japan, we have mass suicide pacts being arranged over the Internet adding to an alarming statistic of over 90 suicides a day and the recent example of a young boy waking up one day and deciding he wanted to kill someone and thus pushing someone in front of a train.

The fact is that what happens in the United States, doesn?t take long to catch on in Japan. This can easily be traced by looking at how moral education has taken a serious detour, starting in the 1960s and the ?Power to the People? brigade. This led to a downtrend in moral activity and an uptrend in drugs and alcohol intake.
To reverse these addictive trends, the 1980s championed the ?Just say no? campaign. Moral education was based on saying no to vices such as drugs, smoke, drink and sex. The theory being that without any actual education in why it is necessary to be virtuous, people were supposed to become free of defective character traits just by being able to resist temptation. If only humans were so easily programmed!

The theory is that if someone feels good about himself, he won?t want to do anything bad. But what applies in therapy doesn?t apply in real life. A person can equally as well decide that he can?t do anything wrong. He may have self esteem, but with no self-awareness. Look at the Tokyo schoolgirls who turn to prostitution just so they can afford to buy the latest designer bag.

What happened in the 1990s was that virtue became redefined as a value. The family has all but disintegrated and teenage pregnancy and an omnipresent sexual culture have become the order of the day. Kids get their examples of moral conduct from TV and the cinema and drug induced hip-hop bands. Their role models are so called celebrities who break the law regularly, have sex indiscriminately and are ?rewarded? for their conduct with obscene amounts of money.
How can someone be expected to tell right from wrong when he?s never been taught the difference between the two? Yet very little moral education is formally recorded in lesson plans and teachers are expected to teach without any formal training on the subject of morals.
It is my opinion that all of these systems didn?t work. Instead, they have led to a decline in the need for moral awareness and are all trying to solve the problem from the wrong end. They are solutions to situations that have already happened.

For younger kids, we need a preventative moral education that puts attention on virtue at an early age where they can develop moral character before they get into bad habits. For teenagers and young parents, we need to have a technique that makes them able to confront and handle the defects they have developed and to redirect them to the need and desire to want to live a virtuous life. This starts at home and should be reinforced by social groups, schools, volunteer and religious groups and so on.
You don?t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that moral education systems could do with some improvement. Of course, it?s not all doom and gloom; there are many people who still uphold traditional values and live an ethical life. Perhaps it is to those that we must appeal in order to take responsibility for those who have fallen by the wayside.
But something that actually works and can be used by everyday people quickly and simply is needed. The simplest way to do this would be by character education. And how do you create good character? Through good example and good habits.

Whoa that sucks.
Sounds like something out of DEATHNOTE. People should just chill out, I dont understand the whole suicide thing, I really dont, and I cant sympathize either. Sucks for them. If they get crazy they should listen to some music or go to the beach or something.

Just remember kids, One of the major drawbacks of suicide is:
You cant tell if you feel better from stress or depression after you kill Yourself

Downloading this movie!!
This horror one more time claims that most of Japanese are too well-mannered! They can not "up" their hand to kill somebody, to reflect their saddness and anger in heart, and dissatisfaction with life.