Hydrogen sulfide - is there anything it can’t do? You don’t just have to top yourself with it - you can threaten others with it too.
Being the current suicide aide du jour taking Japan by storm, it seems it’s now being touted as an offensive weapon.
An Osaka robber dropped in on a loan company […]

in an apparent chemistry experiment gone awesome, a 14 year old girl managed to not only to give herself considerable trouble breathing, but forced an evacuation of her apartment complex. according to police this is only an isolated incident in a series of similar experimentation through out the nation. driven to recreating this […]

scattered around buddhist temples in the tohoku region of japan there are mummified bodies enshrined in . practitioners of an ancient set of rituals known as shugendô, these monks actually mummified themselves in a prolonged act of asceticism. believing that they could attain enlightenment in a mere ten thousand days (about 8 years, […]

Ten per cent of high school students said they have been harassed through emails, websites or blogs, a recent survey by the Hyogo Prefectual Board of Education showed, according to Yahoo Xtra News. Schoolyard bullying has long bedeviled Japan and, as the global trend observed also in other countries, has taken a high-tech twist in […]

Rising Sun of Nihon reports that Japan ranks only number 10 among the top 15 countries reporting the highest suicide rates. In terms of suicide deaths per 100,000 population the following countries beat out Japan: Lithuania (42.1), Belarus (36.8), Russia (36.2), Sri Lanka (30.7),  Kazakhstan (30.0), Hungary (28.5), Guyana (26.8), Latvia (25.2), and Ukraine (25.2). […]

Police investigating a report of a severed head in a parking lot have concluded that a man used an innovative method to end his own life.
According to the authorities, the man tied one end of a rope to a tree and then looped the other end around his own neck. Then he drove off […]