Jeff Kingston and Asano Ken’ichi comment on a self-immolation protest against the Abe government’s collective self-defense policy. The reverberations of the act of self-immolation next to Shinjuku Station on June 29, 2014 seem akin to…
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The distressing story of a Pakistani teenager who lost his life while he was making efforts to prevent a suicide bomber from detonating his school and unleashing a maniac massacre of innocent children in the…
A top US commander says 2012 is expected to be another “tough year” for the country’s entire military as the number of suicides in the US Army ranks is expected to hit a new high…
A 77-year-old Greek man has committed suicide in central Athens by the nation’s parliament, shooting himself with a handgun in apparent financial desperation.
Eyewitness reports say that the man shouted “So I won’t leave debts for my children” before turning the gun on himself. Others claimed he said nothing.
NANCHANG – Zhong Yichun, an elderly farmer from East China’s Jiangxi province, never expected that helping his friend Zeng Qingxiang to commit suicide would bring him a two-year prison sentence. Zhong buried Zeng last October…