Arrested for a Late Manuscript: Seicho Matsumoto's 'Tokyo Express'

(millersbookreview.com)

23 points | by benbreen 3 days ago ago

9 comments

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  • WeakSpeller a day ago ago

    The title screams of LLM. For some reason LLMs love `manuscript`

  • charcircuit 2 days ago ago

    >The tradition of lovers ending their lives together, called shinjū

    Lover suicides we're not a tradition.

    • Alive-in-2025 2 days ago 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 a day ago ago

        There is a difference between something happening in the real world and it being a tradition.

        • avadodin a day ago ago

          Erm?

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

    • BigTTYGothGF 2 days ago ago

      Wiki suggests otherwise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjū

      • charcircuit a day ago 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 15 hours ago 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?