
Legendary seiyuu Daisuke Gōri (郷里大輔) has died under circumstances police consider likely to be suicide. He was 57.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Nov 28, 2009 22:43 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Bizarre, Exhibitionism, Guro, Internet, Police, Sites, Suicide, Video Gallery

A girl has leapt to her death live on video streaming site Stickam, disappearing off her balcony and into the night sky in a broadcast which later showed police arriving and exchanging off-colour remarks…
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The latest scandalous use to which NicoNico Douga’s live broadcast system has been put is allowing a self-harmer, known as “Shigure,” to broadcast her bloody wrist cutting antics live to a horrified audience.
A grotesque capture from the video in question:
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Nov 7, 2009 01:18 JST
- Tags: Crime, Feminism, Main, Marketing, Marriage, Moe, Politics, Relationships, Statistics, Suicide

The Japanese government has published this curious poster warning of the dangers of domestic violence, for some inexplicable reason illustrating it rather tastefully in manga style with a fierce looking lady.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Oct 27, 2009 21:12 JST
- Tags: Crime, Dating, Fraud, Marriage, Murder, Otaku, Plamo, Ronery, Saitama, Suicide

Police have arrested a woman suspected of tricking an otaku into giving her some $50,000 to cover the couple’s imminent marriage, after which the man promptly committed suicide.
Further investigations revealed three other men connected with the woman had died under mysterious circumstances, in a case police are treating as murder.
Update: Now it appears no less than 6 men connected with the woman died or committed suicide, and we learn that the woman, a convicted fraudster, led a lavish lifestyle from which she swelled to just shy of 100kg…
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A man who attempted to commit seppuku in the traditional manner has been arrested because the knife he used to slice open his stomach was of an illegal length.
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A 13-year-old schoolboy has attempted suicide after being caught lifting the skirt of a schoolgirl.
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In the first half of 2009 some 17,076 Japanese killed themselves, almost a 5% increase on the same period a year prior.
Should matters worsen any further, the all time record number of 34,427 deaths by suicide recorded in 2003 will be broken.
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A serial killer who preyed upon members of an online suicide club, suffocating them to death in order to gratify himself sexually, has been executed by hanging.
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Vapid social networking site Twitter claimed the life of another hapless victim with more finality than usual recently when the girl in question accidentally electrocuted herself whilst trying to keep up with her tweets.
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A 12-year-old schoolboy leapt from a sixth floor veranda after his parents decreed that he could no longer play computer games.
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A jilted woman who sought to end her life by dousing herself in petrol and immolating herself publicly was foiled when she neglected to bring a lighter.
She was surprised to find nobody would do her the favor of lending her a lighter, instead calling police to restrain her.
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