
A 12-year-old girl has hanged herself with a scarf she knitted as a gift for her mother after being bullied by her classmates for having a non-Japanese mother.
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A man who became enraged after missing an elevator fell to his death in the shaft after ramming his way through the doors in his electric wheelchair.
The video of the incident has proven popular viewing:
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Oct 1, 2010 04:01 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Crime, Facebook, Internet, New Jersey, Suicide, Twitter, USA, Voyeurism

A student who illicitly streamed a room-mate’s sexual encounters live over the Internet is facing criminal charges after the room-mate responded by committing suicide.
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An 8-year-old girl has committed suicide by hanging herself.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Aug 11, 2010 03:28 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Chiba, Crime, Food, Guro, Mental Illness, Murder, Police, Suicide, Theft

A prisoner has committed suicide by thrusting chopsticks into his own eyes.
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China is fast catching up to Japan in more ways than one – some 300,000 Chinese are thought to kill themselves annually, a quarter of the global total, now being at or over those of suicide-loving Japan at an estimated 23 per 100,000 annually.
In fact, just as city skylines are soaring, so are suicide rates, and it is from these very buildings that many are choosing to cast themselves, so much so that Chinese emergency services sadly seem to be becoming very well equipped to deal with them…
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A man has committed suicide after police tried to pressure him into confessing to groping a drunk woman even after she withdrew her accusation, completely ignoring the beating the man received at the hands of the woman’s companions.
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In an unusual show of mercy, Japanese courts have ruled that a mother who killed her own son under the most tragic of circumstances will not have to serve a prison sentence.
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The case of a Japanese man who committed suicide rather than be deported to a land he never knew and could not even speak the language of has underscored the tragic consequences of Japan’s dubious immigration and citizenship policy.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Mar 9, 2010 20:44 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Bizarre, Guns, Mass Media, Suicide, Tennessee, USA, Weapons, Wii

A 3-year-old girl has accidentally shot and killed herself after allegedly mistaking a loaded pistol for a Wii controller.
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Hikikomori asked what they would do if their parents, for most their only source of income, were to die overwhelmingly gave responses such as “commit suicide” or “starve to death.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jan 30, 2010 21:08 JST
- Tags: Crime, Dating, Fraud, Marriage, Murder, Otaku, Ronery, Saitama, Suicide

Miyuki Ueda, the woman who allegedly seduced and murdered at least 5 men, ranging from lonely otaku to helpless old men, has been arrested in connection with yet another slaying – cameras caught the murderous temptress at the moment of her arrest:
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