Saturday, May 03, 2008
Meanwhile - in Japan
The Japanese are often innovative, but this is much too much...
At mlive.com, Shino Yuasa of the Associated Press, reports:
"TOKYO (AP) — About 350 people fled their homes in northern Japan on Thursday to escape poisonous fumes released by a neighbor who killed himself by mixing detergent and other chemicals — the latest in a series of such suicides.
The panic in Otaru came just hours after national police urged Internet providers to crack down on Web sites spurring a wave of detergent-related suicides in which 50 people have reportedly died in the past month.
The rash of such suicides in Japan — which already has one of the world's highest suicide rates — has triggered widespread concern because the powerful fumes can seriously harm bystanders and rescuers."
