Breitbart: Japan’s government is considering new measures to contain social media-driven violence after the arrest of a man found keeping nine bodies in his home — individuals he allegedly killed after expressing a desire to commit suicide on Twitter.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey also faced calls to limit potentially violent speech on Twitter during a visit to Japan this week.
Police arrested Takahiro Shiraishi on October 31 after finding the dismembered remains of nine people in his apartment in Zama, Kanagawa. According to the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, Shiraishi told police, “I severed the body in my apartment and put it in a cooler … to conceal evidence that I killed the person.”
Law enforcement officials said he was keeping three coolers and several boxes full of body parts in his apartment, attempting to cover the smell of the decomposing remains with cat litter. The attempt, one neighbor told Asahi, failed, and the halls outside his apartment suffered “an extremely pungent smell that [he] had never experienced.”
The Japan Times reports that Shiraishi, 27, “worked in the sex industry as a tout.”
Police revealed this week that Shiraishi allegedly used Twitter, following the Japanese-language “suicide recruitment” hashtag, to target suicidal people to kill. His final victim, a 23-year-old woman, had taken to Twitter to discuss her desire to die, posting, “I’m looking for someone to die with me.” read more
During WWII, in the Imperial Japanese Army, that was normal behavior.
Japanese efficiency?
SUICIDE PILL
Prisoners should be given the option, and after counseling, so should everyone else: the sick, elderly, troubled, homeless, mentally ill.
Ok fine. Let’s just give them a manual to go find their own hemlock recipe and they can do everything themselves. Feel better now?
Don’t wanna know what he was doing with those bodies…
Reading further into the article, there is word that Japan has a problem with “mass suicides”. Has that been in the news? First I’ve heard of it…
Suicidal, huh? He could’ve moved here and dined on Democrats for years.
“worked in the sex industry as a tout.”
What’s a “tout”
joe6pak:
Tout – NOUN
1. a person soliciting custom or business, typically in an aggressive or bold manner.
2. a person who offers racing tips for a share of any resulting winnings.
3. an informer.
Big deal – people commit suicide every day on Twitter here. And Facebook. And Instagram. Etcetera.
Career suicide, that is.