Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!Q.T.Honey!enews.sgi.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.vanderbilt.edu!not-for-mail From: "John W." Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Man immolates self on train in Nagano Pref Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 10:12:17 -0500 Organization: Vanderbilt University usenet news server Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3F54B351.3000702@yahoo.komm> References: <3F52C9A1.60008@yahoo.komm> <3f53e05d$1_6@news.uncensored-news.com> <3F540ED7.2070809@uclink4.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: d007058.n1.vanderbilt.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.vanderbilt.edu 1062515531 3338 129.59.7.58 (2 Sep 2003 15:12:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.vanderbilt.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Sep 2003 15:12:11 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: ja,en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:5070 Dave Fossett wrote: > Hanako Kobayashi wrote: > > >> I think the article said he died. I'm more concerned that it wasn't >> just a suicide, but a mass murder attempt, something that the >> article sort of glossed over (and that might be because the >> authorities did that as well). > > > That's what I wondered too considering the way in which he apparently > waited until the train was in a tunnel. I have read comments making > comparisons with the fire on the Seoul subway train. > Maybe the police decided to play it safe until they know for sure, and even then if it was an attack I wouldn't be surprised if they don't keep it quiet in the name of not scaring the s**t out of people. But I wonder if anyone in the Japanese media asked why the train's fire extinguishers weren't used. John W.