Tomohiro Kato: An exception, or the rule?

Needle found in bread sold at Wakayama supermarket

WAKAYAMA — A needle has been found stuck in bread sold at a supermarket here, police said.

A 69-year-old woman who bought the bread was not injured as she found the needle before eating it. Police are treating the case as forcible obstruction of business.

The woman bought a bag containing five pieces of bread at the Okuwa Supermarket’s Wakayama-Nakanoshima outlet in Wakayama on May 28, and put the bread in her freezer at home, local police said.

After thawing out two of the pieces, she was about eat them on Sunday when she found a needle stuck in one of them, and alerted the store.

The incident has prompted the store to use a metal detector to check if any metal objects are in the bread it sells.

(Mainichi Japan) June 10, 2008

Would you like to baste your bread before eating, or after?

Wakayama Prefecture and the Poisoned Curry

Wakayama is the same backwater prefecture (state) were four people were killed and 63 others injured after eating curry laced with arsenic at a community festival. Masumi Hayashi, the chief suspect, was sentenced to death but she is currently appealing the sentence.

The pot of curry which was served to the residents of Sonobe district, Wakayama, was poisoned with at least 1kg grams of arsenic—enough poison to kill about 100 people on July 25, 1998.

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Japan’s Raging Grannies

• TOYOHASHI, Aichi — A 73-year-old pensioner unleashed a brutal attack on her 74-year-old female neighbor. Kitamura burst into Morita’s home at about 9 a.m. Sunday and attacked her with the hammer causing minor injuries to her head and face.I’m sick of seeing your ugly face every morning: Woman, 74, unleashes hammer attack on female neighbor, 73

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• Pensioner dies after crashing car into prefectural government headquarters
  MATSUE — A 75-year-old man living in Matsue drove his car through a glass door at the Shimane Prefectural Government headquarters in the city, plowing into sofas and shelves inside the room before coming to a halt, local police said.

• KANRA, Gunma — Kanemitsu Arai, 68, killed his bedridden wife and hanged himself, possibly because he was sick of caring for her, police said. The bodies of Kanemitsu Arai, 68, and his wife, Kazuko, were found in a shed they owned here on Tuesday. Gunma pensioner slays wife, hangs self

• Elderly couple found dead in apparent murder-suicide
  An elderly couple (Shinya Hayashi, 84, and his 81-year-old wife, Harue,) was found dead in their Tokyo home on Thursday in an apparent murder-suicide case. Police found a suicide note on the stairway of the house that was believed to have been written by Harue, which read, “I will take my husband.”

Celebrating Penis!

Kanamara a frisky festival for every Tom, Dick and Harry…without the Tom and Harry

(Mainichi Japan) April 7, 2008

KAWASAKI — Thousands gathered here Sunday for the Kanamara Matsuri, an event with roots dating back centuries and now one of Japan’s best-known fertility festivals.

Kanamara Matsuri, literally the Festival of the Iron Penis, had its beginnings in the Edo Period ( 1603-1868 ) with the prayers of women called meshimori onna, according to Wakamiya Hachimangu, the Shinto shrine in Kawasaki where the event was held.

‘Shinto priests and community leaders pray to inspire the spirits at a portable phallic shrine [a penis-shaped portable shrine called "Elizabeth"] during the Kanamara Festival, a fertility ritual, at Wakamiya Hachimangu Shrine in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo April 6, 2008. The festival, which is held annually on the first Sunday of April, is believed to bring good luck and fertility blessings. (Reuters)’

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Army ‘deeply involved’ in the mass suicides

“Imperial Japanese Army was deeply involved in the mass suicides,” Japanese Judge rules.

Judge Rejects Defamation Suit Against WW2 Okinawa Suicides Author

OSAKA — A defamation lawsuit against Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kenzaburo Oe and a publisher over statements that military officers ordered civilians to commit mass suicide in Okinawa during World War II was rejected in the Osaka District Court on Friday.

The lawsuit, filed by 91-year-old Yutaka Umezawa, a former military commander on the island of Zamami in Okinawa; and the 75-year-old younger brother of another military commander on Tokashiki Island, had demanded 20 million yen in compensation and a publishing ban on books put out by Iwanami Shoten Publishers.

In handing down the ruling, Presiding Judge Toshimasa Fukami declined to rule on whether commanders had actually ordered civilians to commit suicide, but said that judging from the conditions at the time, “the former Imperial Japanese Army was deeply involved in the mass suicides,” and rejected the suit.

The judge agreed that the military had been deeply involved in the suicides, noting that hand grenades had been handed out for people to commit suicide, and that there were no mass suicides on islands where the Imperial Japanese Army was not stationed.

According to figures held by the Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum, 171 people on Zamami Island and 329 people on Tokashiki Island committed suicide towards the end of World War II. News Report

Author Kenzaburo Oe: ‘Court’s ruling should help schools provide a precise picture of the Battle of Okinawa.’ (Photo Credit: EIJIRO MORII/ THE ASAHI SHIMBUN) - Photo may be subject to copyright. See Fair Use Notice!

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Fruits of a Repressed Culture

Murder, Suicide, Bullying, Sex Crimes

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Why Don’t Wealthy Members of Japan’s Ruling Class Commit Suicide?

With Friends Like These Who Needs Enemies?

Imperial Japanese Army Induced Locals to Commit Mass Suicide

About 110,000 people held a rally in Okinawa on Saturday to demand that the education ministry retract an instruction pressuring publishers of history textbooks to remove references to the military’s involvement in forcing civilians to commit mass suicide during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa.

Here’s an egregious example of the 10-Rule-90 principle in action (see previous posts). [This tragedy is comparable with the execution of more than 300 shell-shocked British soldiers by their own army in World War I because they couldn't continue fighting the "enemy."]

About 4-10 percent of the population in Japan (the masters) rule everyone else (the slaves). The right to life was given (and taken away); it wasn’t acquired! Perhaps, things aren’t as bad as they used to be, but who knows what’s in store for the majority once the “honeymoon” is over!