11/17/2007

Okinawa and Suicide

You may have read on Marianette Amper's suicide (?).

Now you will read another version of suicide by the Okinawan as ordered by the Japanese Imperial Army near the end of World War 2.

It is suicide but a difference sort of influence or power. One came from "poverty" the other came from a cultural practice.

Click and read the link:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7098876.stm

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