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Death By Chopstick

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A Fuchu Prison inmate in his 50s has committed suicide by stabbing himself in the head with a chopstick, prison officials said over the weekend.

The man stabbed himself in the back of the head with the sharp end of a broken chopstick on the night of Feb. 19.

He received treatment at a hospital in the Tokyo suburb of Fuchu, but died Sunday morning in the Fuchu Prison infirmary. An autopsy will be carried out Monday at Fuchu Police Station.

Do you doubt it was really a suicide?

10 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - February 25, 2008 at 2:16 pm

Categories: General Japan Tags: chopstick, japan, news, prison, suicide

majiimeaussie

Come on, I know you want to do it.

Make a fool of yourself in front of your office enacting how difficult it would be to stab yourself in the back of the head with a chopstick.

There is no way I could provide much force but maybe it is because my body is inflexible. Is some extra investigation required?
MrK

Where’s the poll about whether it really was suicide or not? Because it’s pretty obvious someone else stabbed him.

http://www.japanprobe.com James

Since the first two comments on this post are along that line, I suppose I’ll add a poll.

404error

stabbing onself in the back of the head is like shooting yourself in the fronthead with a gun.. very difficult to do

Ryry

Yeah, if he stabbed himself in his fronthead, that would be more believable.

Level3

Japanese police covering up a murder by calling it a suicide?

Say it ain’t so.

This is part of the reason Japan is the “suicide capitol of the world” AND “safety country with low murder rate”
morningstar

Hard to believe that anyone can suicide with a chopstick. I feel a coverup.
doinkies

I also doubt it was a suicide. It’s more likely that some other person, maybe another prisoner, stabbed him.
Ryo

You “couldnt” really stab urself with a chopstick…it takes lots of courage to do that…plus i think you rather die by a gun shot…

KYPMbangi

Guess what? The japanese are a master of self-suicidal and self-inflicted injury. Imagine harakiri with a chopstick. LOL.

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