Japanese Olympic Official Commits Suicide By Jumping In Front of Train

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A Japanese Olympic official committed suicide by jumping in front of a train.

https://nypost.com/2021/06/07/japanese-olympic-official-dies-after-jumping-in-front-of-train/

He must have been under a ton of pressure because at least 50-75% of the country does not want the Olympics depending on the poll. And over the last week 10,000 volunteers quit. The doctors don't want the games for fear of diverting limited resources to games.

He was an accounting executive and probably had access to the alot of the numbers including money and other things. Being many a suicide is honor motivated have to wonder if he was told to lie, fudge some numbers etc.
 

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Aunt Marg said:
Knowing how corrupt Olympic Games are, I can only imagine the sly, underhanded, and backdoor ways of top officials who are behind the organizing of such world events, but certainly not worth taking ones life over.
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I never knew they were corrupt but makes sense. Anything that generates money and prestige like the Olympics would be. That's the world.

Sad situation. I am 100% for them being cancelled. I won't watch a bit if it goes on and it looks like it will.
 

Aunt Marg said:
Knowing how corrupt Olympic Games are, I can only imagine the sly, underhanded, and backdoor ways of top officials who are behind the organizing of such world events, but certainly not worth taking ones life over.
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What puzzles me are the conflicting polls as to how many of the population want to proceed. Even the best polls only have about 50% of Japan wanting the games to proceed. Yet there are other polls still showing 80% don't want them. Being an executive he was probably told to lie and/or gleefully sell the games to the public.

I don't know if he wasn't suicided but might have had actual pressure from Olympic officials and others. Yes things like bribes on international scale show how far some will get their way. And like many a drug being a gateway drug once one is bribing, lying, manipulating escalation to murder and coverups aren't that big a leap.
 
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What puzzles me are the conflicting polls as to how many of the population want to proceed. Even the best polls only have about 50% of Japan wanting the games to proceed. Yet there are other polls still showing 80% don't want them. Being an executive he was probably told to lie and/or gleefully sell the games to the public.

I don't if he wasn't suicided but might have had actual pressure from Olympic officials and others. Yes things like bribes on international scale show how far some will get their way. And like many a drug being a gateway drug once one is bribing, lying, manipulating escalation to murder and coverups aren't that big a leap.
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I agree with all, WhatInThe.

So sad to know a life was lost due to some shallow games that at the end of the day amount to nothing.
 
Manatee said:
I wonder if he ever gave any thought to the folks who had to clean up after him.
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My husband was a train dispatcher for UP Railroad for several years. He said people get hit and killed by trains quite often but you never hear about it. Whenever someone gets hit by a train, the crew lets the dispatcher know and fairly quickly the whole dispatch center knows about it. The train crew is asked if they want to be relieved. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. But everyone is impacted by the incident.

People that jump in front of trains don't consider how their action affects the railroad people involved.
 
I am reminded of the state cop out in Colorado who was brought up on charges of having his way with a few young girls. He was found guilty, but allowed to return home until sentencing. He knew that jail time was staring him in the face, so he drove up onto a mountain interstate highway that he often patrolled, parked his car alongside the road and waited for the first semi to come around the bend and going downhill. When the semi came barreling down the highway and then around that turn, the driver never saw the cop standing in the lane, so the result was inevitable. Did you ever see what a semi going 75 mph can do to a deer?

Problem solved!
 
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I am reminded of the state cop out in Colorado who was brought up on charges of having his way with a few young girls. He was found guilty, but allowed to return home until sentencing. He knew that jail time was staring him in the face, so he drove up onto a mountain interstate highway that he often patrolled, parked his car alongside the road and waited for the first semi to come around the bend and going downhill. When the semi came barreling down the highway and then around that turn, the driver never saw the cop standing in the lane, so the result was inevitable. Did you ever see what a semi going 75 mph can do to a deer?

Problem solved!
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An example of a selfish, inconsiderate person who wanted to hurt others right to the end. No excuse for it, especially when he could do it privately. Reminded me of that Treasurer - Budd Dwyer, convicted of bribery who killed himself on live TV.
 
Alternative opinion 3, 2, 1, here goes. 🤔

Those Japanese train platforms are extremely crowded. Maybe he was pushed, or maybe it was an accident.
Why do people think he jumped off a crowded train platform to kill himself on purpose? What is the evidence for that.
Did he leave a suicide note or letter -- in his own handwriting? Did he leave any messages or tell anyone? In advance of course.

Even if he did it, the NYPost is known for their biased reporting. Just look at all the fake news and false things they've been
posting for the last 16 months. The man's death is real, and sad, but their take of what happened and why is quite questionable.

I do agree the Olympics are way overblown, and also feel they should be done away with. As an athlete myself, I only watch
the events for which I have a personal interest, as most people probably do, nothing else, and absolutely none of the ceremonies.
I do enjoy watching local, national, international competitions, and the World Championships in the various athletic events much better.
 
Japan has a long history of self isolation, and self centric ideology. They are pretty homogenous, with few "aliens". And the Olympics are a huge drain on the economy. No nation has every come out ahead, economically, by hosting the games. And the games have become this sprawling, vast mass of competing teams, with bazar rules, strange national pet games, and questionable scoring, not to mention the overblown opening extravagances. Throw in the fear of Covid-20, what does the average Japanese get out of having the Olympics?
 
The Japanese have one of the lowest vaccine rates before and during the virus yet they have some of the longest life expectancy on the planet. They're not a fan of vaccines period.

That being said of course it's a huge drain on the economy and they are smart enough to realize that. It's estimated their cost of Olympic and/or stadium in particular is going to run about 30% over. Another rumor is the man who apparently killed himself knew about the pressure and mortality rate of many of the construction workers faced racing to meet the 2020 deadline.

And back to the drain on the local economy. I saw a headline today they are going to actually start blocking off streets, neighborhoods, areas etc for the Olympics with no international fans/tourists allowed. But that's a contract stipulation in many an Olympic host city contract.

It's about drawing tourists before and after and most cities today will not a see a profitable or relevant tourist bump to justify hosting an Olympic and having their life and routine business turned upside down.
 
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Did he really jump in front of the train or was he trying to 'Nippon' the train. I'll get my coat. :)
 
It looks like the "Games" will be a go, but there will be no crowds :

"Advocates for postponement or cancellation point out that, with respect to COVID-19, Japan is no better off now than it was a year ago. Although the country has managed to avoid the truly horrific infection spikes and death rates seen in some other parts of the world, more than two-thirds of Japan’s COVID-19 fatalities have come in 2021 alone. Vaccinations are proceeding very slowly, with less than 5 percent of residents having received their first inoculation. This puts Japan dead last among major developed nations in the global campaign to get shots in arms. Reacting to increased case counts across the country in recent weeks, Japanese health officials expanded state-of-emergency decrees from six prefectures, including Tokyo, to nine. Newly added were Hokkaido, where the marathon is scheduled to be run, and Hiroshima, where on May 10, the Olympic torch relay—that gift to the modern Olympics from Nazi organizers in 1936—had to be pulled off the streets due to a local infection surge.


Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department has issued an advisory instructing Americans not to travel to Japan given the ominous uptick in COVID-19 cases just six weeks before the games are set to begin. As if to add yet more insult to all this injury, a number of well-known athletes have expressed reservations about competing in Tokyo: Potential no-shows from the world of tennis alone include Spain’s Rafael Nadal, the United States’ Serena Williams, and Japan’s Kei Nishikori and Naomi Osaka. Most ominously, recent opinion polls have shown a large part of the Japanese population favors either putting off the games (again) or canceling altogether a potential superspreader athletic extravaganza.

Nevertheless, along with the IOC, Tokyo’s Olympic Organising Committee and the Japanese government under Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga are determined to go ahead with this risky adventure, even if it means imposing a ban on spectators from overseas—which is exactly what has now been decided. Some previous Olympic festivals, most memorably Athens 2004, were embarrassingly short on spectators from abroad, primarily because many were afraid to visit a venue considered highly vulnerable to terrorism. (It was the first Summer Games after the Sept. 11 attacks.) Tokyo 2021, by contrast, won’t let the foreign hordes show up even if they wanted to." :mad:

Unlucky Tokyo Rolls the Olympic Dice—Again
 
The Olympics have been too expensive even for some to make that once in a lifetime trip. Throw in the hassle of air travel in general I don't see future Olympics seeing robust crowds or profit. Russia and China want them because they get to sell themselves not just as a tourist attraction their politicial system.
 
Manatee said:
I wonder if he ever gave any thought to the folks who had to clean up after him.
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For someone who can only see suicide as their "way out," rationality, like the impact on so many others, is not on their horizon. Otherwise, they simply wouldn't do it.
 

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