Word: mihara
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...signs erected at Mihara volcano, Nishikigaura inlet and Kegon waterfall near Tokyo, favorite spots for Japanese suicides. Despite this earnest entreaty, some 500 Japanese, taught by Japanese tradition that self-destruction offers an honorable solution to all kinds of trouble, leaped into the lava, the ocean and the abyss beneath the waterfall...
...building the world's first airflow liner. This streamlined Diesel beauty will speed tourists and prospective suicides from Tokyo 59 miles to the Island of Oshima in 3½ hours. President Hayashi has provided all sorts of conveniences to get passengers from the landing dock up sulphur-belching Mihara-yama (Mount Mihara) to popular Suicide Point on the crater's brim. One may even ride a camel, one of the first three ever imported into Japan, all by Go-Getter Hayashi. Last week his publicity men, inspired by the windfall of a second triple suicide this year, excitedly...
...most Japanese would-be suicides, Miss Matsumoto then sat down and composed her note of farewell to life. Next the two girls boarded one of President Hayashi's steamers for Mihara-yama, then merely considered a picturesque volcano. The historic day was Feb. 11, 1933. Miss Tomito, after seeing her friend jump safely to certain Death, tripped ecstatically away, explained her brilliant idea next day to chums at Jissen Girls' College. Instant persecution followed. Pecking newshawks gave Miss Tomito no rest, blew her up into a national sensation and started the procession which has brought to grim Mihara...