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

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11 points | by benbreen 1 day ago

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charcircuit 1 hour ago
>The tradition of lovers ending their lives together, called shinjū
Lover suicides we're not a tradition.
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- BigTTYGothGF 40 minutes ago
  Wiki suggests otherwise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjū
- Alive-in-2025 39 minutes 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?