A schoolboy has hurled himself from the top of one of Tokyo’s tallest buildings, earning much attention for his “bravery” and unusual choice of location.
The boy ascended to the rooftop observation deck of Sunshine 60 at 7:40PM, scaling the 3m fence and evading the security guard present to prevent just this sort of thing, and leapt to his death below.
He landed on the roof of the entrance, dying immediately – fortunately no passers-by were injured. The security guard above says he witnessed him climbing the fence and told him to stop, “but he didn’t stop,” and summoned police after he jumped.
Police managed to identify him as a high schooler from the ID he carried, and are treating the case as a suicide. A note found in his bag made reference to “unfortunate” events but the details have not been made public.
Sunshine 60, a 240m high 60 storey skyscraper housing shopping and leisure facilities in central Tokyo’s Ikebukuro entertainment district built on the site of Sugamo Prison, was the tallest building in Tokyo when it was opened in 1978, although it now stands as only the 4th (the height of Tokyo’s vast numbers of tall buildings tends to be dictated by real estate conditions rather than competitive erection).
Suicide is the leading cause of death for young Japanese, although leaping from tall buildings is a relatively unusual method – the majority of deaths take the form of quiet strangulations at home.
Amongst Japanese, more attention has accrued to the bravery required for making such a leap than the reasons why yet another schoolboy felt the need to take his own life…
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9 foot fence...?
Seen schools with better protection on their roofs..
Rest in peace, cowardly yet brave souls.
Why didn't the guard shoot the boy's hands off so as to prevent him from scaling the fence? Geez!
>implying the guard had a gun...in japan
Why would the guard have a gun ? It's Japan.
Actually a taser and not a gun would be the correct tool to use in that situation.
Actually a taser gun and not a gun would be the correct tool to use in that situation.
Rest in Pieces, cowardly yet brave souls.
there fixed it for you
Pieces in Rest, brave yet cowardly souls.
Keep being dead, don't eat my take away siumai.
I stayed at Sunshine and went to that deck and got sick from the height...
Any pictures of the scene that i can fap to ? Link please.
Maybe you should try what he did. I think you'd get a perfect view.
Damn, you're gonna cause a huge fire with that one.
Tell a person to not jump, and then just sit back and enjoy the show?
If you go jump off it yourself you'll probably have time to fap one out before you hit the floor.
@ 21:51: Cool story, virgin. U MAD?
sad...
How stupid can you get. There is nothing brave about suicide. Only cowards take their own lives instead of facing up to their problems.
well, you know what Yoruno said:
"dying is painful, but its better than living"
it require great courage to face painful thing, and to acquire something better than living in this world
+1 for obscure series reference.
-1 for no penguin reborn reference
It depends on how you think. Judging from the place he jumped off, we can assume that he definitely wanted to die. It's not like I encourage suicide, but sadly as a fellow human I can understand why he did it, that's why I can't judge his actions. Even so, I would never choose to end my life myself. That would mean that I lost against "life".
exactly, what ever happened to "suicide by cop" after stabbing the shit outta your tormentors. if ur gonna kill yourself might as well take the fuckers with u.
Yeah. Japan need to be more like America!!! Give us the Japanese Columbine!
Well the brave here was referring at the location that he choose. Most suicides are either By the Noose or /wrist in the "safety" in your home.
You dont know what you are talking about.
Those people usually cant think clearly and its not their fault.
If they can think clearly enough to ascend to the top of a tall structure and scale a fence *with a purpose* in mind, I'd say they're thinking pretty clearly.
If you've never been in the situation to consider suicide, you really don't know what you're talking about.
At the time, you don't think clearly. It's like being a whole different person.
HA HA HA HA HA
yeah ok!
@ Anon 23:36
anon 2:46: Yeah, because crazy people definitely can't climb stairs, you stupid fuck.
"There is nothing brave about suicide. Only cowards take their own lives instead of facing up to their problems."
Spoken like a good little Christian faggot. Truth be told, our minds are hardwired to prevent ourselves from consciously hurting ourselves and it takes a fair amount of determination to bypass that natural safety switch. So while you can talk like a generic Christian faggot, on why suicide is a "cowards way out", I doubt you have what it takes to do the same. Now please prove me wrong, by killing yourself.
Remember that stabber who went around killing in Akihabara?
Yeah he was retaliating against the world.
Go die in a fire.
How stupid can you get. There is nothing brave about suicide. Only cowards take their own lives instead of facing up to their problems.
Ew, you sound like a Christian
22:11, you sound like a brave man. I'm only a poor coward who cant see the virtue of suicide. Maybe I can learn, if you demonstrate this valour to me.
Well, if someone had thought that his/her life is not worth protecting, that living just made him/her suffer, then whats the point in survival?
I think it just option we need to choose, and choosing either to live or die surely needs bravery.
Survival is a basic instinct of all living things, and we human have more than instinct to choose, we have our mind to decide whats the best for us...
judging other's choice without knowing whats really happened, whats his/her consideration for choosing to die rather than live, thats a coward act....
at least I think choosing either to live or die surely needs bravery, not just accepting fate without any real action.
judging other's choice without knowing whats really happened, whats his/her consideration for choosing to die rather than live, thats a coward act....
As an atheist, you sound like a twat.
And why exactly is suicide cowardly? You have no obligation to anyone to stay alive. I choose to live because I think living is a net positive (+EV). If you come to the conclusion that your life isn't worth living, it's cowardly to keep living just because you're scared of dying. That being said, please try not to inconvenience anyone else in the process.
There is nothing brave about living either. Welcome to the gray world.
The basic nature of living is survival. So you can either be "brave" and keep surviving, or give up. There's no "gray world."
Well, if someone had thought that his/her life is not worth protecting, that living just made him/her suffer, then whats the point in survival?
I think it just option we need to choose, and choosing either to live or die surely needs bravery.
Survival is a basic instict of all living things, and we human have more than instinct to choose, we have our mind to decide whats the best for us...
It's also considered brave to go against the masses.
Well, if someone had thought that his/her life is not worth protecting, that living just made him/her suffer, then whats the point in survival?
I think it just option we need to choose, and choosing either to live or die surely needs bravery.
Survival is a basic instinct of all living things, and we human have more than instinct to choose, we have our mind to decide whats the best for us...
No, that's called being a hipster.
If suicide is so cowardly, why do so few actually go through with it?
If you aren't a coward, kill yourself.
"Unfortunate" events? It was probably bullying.
It's "unfortunate" if you think of him as one more future "office worker".
so i mostly hear suicides by boys,what is the rate in suicide in girls there?
explains low B/R
Statistically worldwide, men are 4 times as likely to actually commit suicide than girls so, divide the number of male suicides by 4 and you should have a rough idea.
Not to mention the boys to girls ratio in Asian countries.