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男女7人がネット心中
12日、埼玉県皆野町の山の駐車場で、停車中のワンボックスカー内で7人の若い男女が死んでいるのが発見された。
Seven people die in group suicide pact
SAITAMA (Kyodo) - Four males and three females were found dead Oct. 12 inside a station wagon in a mountain parking lot in Minano, Saitama Prefecture, police said.
Separately, two women were found dead in a car in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on the same day.
Investigative sources said they believed that one of the women in the Yokosuka incident and one of the women found in Minano were among four women who tried to kill themselves in the town of Okutama, western Tokyo, on Oct. 4, but were stopped by police.
Inside the station wagon in Minano, police found several suicide notes and four charcoal stoves, which are commonly used in suicides by carbon monoxide poisoning. The vehicle was wrapped in blue plastic sheets and was sealed from the inside with adhesive tape.
In recent years, a number of Web sites have sprung up in Japan to introduce suicidal people to other suicidal people so that they can die together.
Suicides have been rising in Japan amid the prolonged economic slump. Last year, the total number of people who took their own lives hit a record high of about 34,400, exceeding the 30,000 mark for the sixth straight year.
Japan stands out among industrially advanced nations with its high suicide rate. The United States has about the same number of suicides a year but its population is twice the size of Japan's.
Shukan ST: Oct. 22, 2004
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- in group suicide pact
- 集団自殺するという約束で
- parking lot
- 駐車場
- Investigative sources
- 捜査筋
- suicide notes
- 遺書
- charcoal stoves
- 七輪
- carbon monoxide poisoning
- 一酸化炭素中毒
- vehicle
- 車
- was sealed from the inside
- 内側から目張りされていた
- adhesive tape
- 粘着テープ
- a number of 〜
- 多数の〜
- have sprung up
- 出現した
- suicidal
- 自殺願望のある
- amid 〜
- 〜の中で
- prolonged economic slump
- 長引く不況
- exceeding 〜
- 〜を上回って
- stands out
- 突出する
- industrially advanced nations
- 先進国
- rate
- 率