Killer Caught !

The big news during the past week: They captured the prime suspect for the killing of Lindsay Hawker, a British girl that came to Japan a couple of years ago. The picture above, is the same person, even you could not tell at first. His name is Tatsuya Ichihashi .

There is an article with some informations on wikipedia , the family's website and a Blog with latest news on the subject.

The news is big because it involves a foreigner and few mistakes done by the police two years ago while trying to catch him. Since then, he run away, had a plastic surgery and moved elsewhere.

This until last week when he was finally arrested. The media coverage is huge on this. Probably because this small victory shed some good light on the dark shadow that covered the police department when he slipped away 2 years ago. (Some of the rumors says that the reason he could run away, was that the police had problems with Walkie Talkies while chasing him)...

If you have time, take a look to the JAPANTODAY website. You will be surprised about the quantity of news on murders and suicides.

Since we are talking about creepy stuff, here another little information. In Japan, the suicide Rate is quite high and this is known. What is less known is how they do it:

Mostly, they choose Normal Train instead of Subways, probably due to the fact that the speed of the train is higher in open areas than the one of the Subway (btw. subways are not only underground in japan).

When someone jumps in front of a train, things can get quite messy and all Train traffic is interrupted. For this reason, there is a fix rate for Suicides: about 300,000 USD. Yes, you read right. The Train Company will ask the family of the deceased to pay the bill...

So, not only the family has to bear the loss, pay a funeral that can cost up to 40,000 USD, but even get a huge bill for disturbing the daily commuting...

Life can be expensive in Japan, but Death... has its own price too.