more news...
Here's a news article about the student...my heart is still heavy over it.
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20051111p2a00m0na005000c.html
I'm particularly sickened by the person that tried to take advantage of it in order to cash in. Seems to happen a lot in Japan...a certain brand of blackhearted jerk here has learned how to take advantage of the tacit agreement of honesty that the Japanese hold each other to. I remember after the earthquake, all the scams going around for people trying to donate money to earthquake victims, when it was going into a fraudulent account instead and pocketed on the side. Sooner or later people here will become less trusting of each other as they are in other nations where people have been screwing each other over for years...but I hope they will just get aggressive in their policing of scammers so the famous Japanese honor system can be upheld.
posted by Erik @ 6:38 PM
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6 Comments:
nasty.
Ive heard of nasty shit before, but in japan i hear about these ransom demands much more than i did at home.
Weird huh.
Will there be some sort of memoral at your school for the little boy?
yah they are sketchy here, lots of weird ransom stuff. i think they watch too much american tv. i'm sure they'll have something for him, i'm not sure...it's one of my visit elementaries and i'm not scheduled to be there this term so I'm not sure.
very sad eric, very sad. poor kid feel for his parents.don't know what else to say except life can be so short and we should make the most out of every minute we have.
hey erik
sorry to change the subject, was just flicking through your pictures, which are fab by the way, and im getting excited byt he snow!
That fire festival you went to? Where and when is it? It looks aweseome, i really wanna go!
thanks Kel, I know it's sad...it's sort of dropped out of conversation around town though and I get the feeling it will fade from memory. I can't help feeling that part of it was that he was considered somewhat of a social outcast in this society anyway cuz of his disability, I just hope he isn't forgotten, especially cuz of something like that...
And Kat, that fire festival is the raddest festival. It's in Nozawa Onsen across the border in Nagano on January 15. I am planning already to try to make a little local JET trip out of it so mark your calendar.
sounds awesome!!
let me know, id be GAME for sure!!
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