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Arrested for a Late Manuscript: Seicho Matsumoto's 'Tokyo Express' (millersbookreview.com)
sneurlax 53 minutes ago [-]
I would love to read this article.

I did not read this article.

4 days ago [-]
WeakSpeller 3 days ago [-]
The title screams of LLM. For some reason LLMs love `manuscript`
speed_spread 1 hours ago [-]
Because 'manuscript' means hand-written. LLMs think if they write it enough times, it'll become true. Then they'll grow hands and then not only will RAM be in short supply but keyboards too.
charcircuit 4 days ago [-]
>The tradition of lovers ending their lives together, called shinjū

Lover suicides we're not a tradition.

Alive-in-2025 4 days ago [-]
I never heard of it before today so know nothing about it. Wikipedia has an extensive discussion of it, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinj%C5%AB.

Is this page false with bad references maybe, or was it just a literary tradition and not happening in the real world?

charcircuit 3 days ago [-]
There is a difference between something happening in the real world and it being a tradition.
avadodin 3 days ago [-]
Erm?

You should be made aware of the fact that unspeakable horror, Japan is more awesome and actually great and traditional.

empath75 40 minutes ago [-]
Double suicides happen all the time around the world and are extensively documented in literature (Romeo and Juliet being the prototypical example). That doesn't mean it is a "tradition".
BigTTYGothGF 4 days ago [-]
Wiki suggests otherwise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjū
charcircuit 3 days ago [-]
The only instance of tradition on that page says it is contained within plays and literature. This is different than saying that the actual act itself, in real life, was a tradition.
oliculipolicula 3 days ago [-]
The reasonable thing to do is look up the ja.wiki

Here's one citation (14-15 double suicides a year Taisho era in some fashionable district)

https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14094/0100275627

I agree that suicide ideation is not exactly prosocial, but I think being tolerant of misinformation is a worse look on HN?

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