As the reuteurs report say “The way these suicides are carried out is very sensational for the media….. (and) Saito, at the suicide hotline, warned that group suicides should not be blown out of proportion, adding that they make up only 2 percent of all Japanese suicides.

“The vast majority of suicides in Japan are by hanging,” he said. “But that’s not dramatic, so it doesn’t make the news.”

So if you are interested in getting a deeper, hype free and spin free report on so called suiciced internet pacts just check out these online resources from’Japan Mental Health’ Blog written by some of the many of the mental healthcare professional living and working in Japan, who know from personal experience in their eveyday work the true reality behind the hype of the sentational and often sterotypical press and media reports on Suidide in Japan 2004:

Japan Suicide Pacts
http://www2.gol.com/users/andrew/2005/02/japan-suicide-pacts.html

Japan Suicide
http://www2.gol.com/users/andrew/2005/02/suicide-reports-2005.html

Its a little “Japanified” bear that has really long claws and kills people, and children seem to love him for it. XD
Japanese girls concider this VERY cute… and when I asked them why, they had no anwser… just repeated ‘very cute’. XD

Whatever ^_^ love them for it XD
http://www.chax.net/

http://www.sweatyfrog.com/gloomy6.html

http://www.engrish-store.com/ihatmystshir.html

soooo do the japanese except suicide as an honorable death? well they used to… but these days its a little different…

http://www.engrish.com/image/engrish/revolver.jpg

yes, if I killed my self, I’d do it in a group of people! XD