And, for the flip side of Japan’s ambivalent relationship with suicide, this fake commercial for a “wrist cutter” from the movie Tokyo Gore Police (NYT review here), also from Slog tipper Ben.
And now, to get the taste of that out of your brain, please enjoy this story about the dramatically falling rates of polio in poor countries.
Go world!
And old-timey Santa!
GO, OLD-TIMEY SANTA, GO!
Great, and Santa’s a cop. Just what I needed to hear.
But, if you stop Japanese from committing suicide, won’t that mean far few emo anime?
Think of the goth children!
Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-deeeeeeeeeeee-hooooooooooo!