Comments on: Japan’s Agriculture Minister Offs Himself

By: kaien

kaien — Tue, 29 May 2007 05:25:41 +0000

James, you’re getting baited by the troll -_-;;

Anyway, it’s sad he committed suicide since he’s not the first or last to have been involved in this…just a scape goat.

By: Reader

Reader — Tue, 29 May 2007 00:37:32 +0000

The suicide just comes days after the arrests of senior officials at J-Green. Prosecutors also raided the J-Green office at Kunamoto, Matsuoka’s home town and found that he got donations from the companies involved. So it looks that the net was closing on him…

By: Suicide in Japan « Take, Take, Take

Suicide in Japan « Take, Take, Take — Mon, 28 May 2007 18:21:32 +0000

[...] 29th, 2007 · No Comments is for everyone. From the Times: Japan’s agricultural minister, Toshikatsu Matsuoka, killedhimself today, just hours before he was to face parliamentary questioning on a political funding scandal, government officials said. [...]

By: Landwirtschaftsminister Matsuoka begeht Selbstmord « Der gute Name

Landwirtschaftsminister Matsuoka begeht Selbstmord « Der gute Name — Mon, 28 May 2007 12:41:00 +0000

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By: Peter Pan

Peter Pan — Mon, 28 May 2007 07:49:01 +0000

I think you’re missing the more important issue for the other political parties in Japan:

How can we exploit the situation to further our own gains and continue not to try and be a useful group of politicians working for the people, but working just to get in power ourselves.

I was just watching a bit about it on the TV Asahi, and in 5 minutes they called for Abe to take responsibility for the suicide, the scandal, and for putting Matsuoka in office to begin with no less than 5 times.

By: James

James — Mon, 28 May 2007 07:39:13 +0000

“Korean will never do that”

Suicide is the fourth cause of death in South Korea. A government report
released at the end of 2006 stated that South Korea’s suicide rate was the highest among the members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 2005. http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?at_code=390145

By: Benon

Benon — Mon, 28 May 2007 07:22:03 +0000

Wtf? Why would he killed himself just Coz black fund issue.
Is this how most Japanese ppl would do if they found themselves in the cliff?

Man!, Korean will never do that. Ancient Korean saying “there is always escape door even during heaven’s falling”.

There is famous Korean monk who escape Hell after he was resurected from dead and leave to tell his experience. I’m trying to find he’s name but can’t remember.