The Mainichi Daily News (translated: The Every Day Daily News) reports an Imperial Guard for the Japanese royal family shot himself in the palace.
An Imperial Guard officer was found dead Thursday in the grounds of the Tokyo palace where Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako live, in an apparent suicide, a spokesman for the guards said.
The lifeless body of the 19-year-old officer was found in a bathroom at Akasaka Palace with a gunshot wound to his head, said Imperial Guard spokesman Mitsuo Koibuchi.
All those American otaku out there must be ripping their hair out. That’s gotta be their dream job. You get to live out a Star Wars fantasy and be Japanese all at the same time.
This is us meeting the royal family a couple years ago at New Years. They’re there. In the middle of the building. Behind the glass. The Emperor even spoke to us. Anyone who looked at him was shot on the spot by the Imperial Guard. Not really.
Aaaahahahahaha. Those crazy japs. This could have happened to me in Kyoto. I’d crap my pants. Except I’d really just crap the crapper.
Needless to say, Japan is not a litigious society. By the way, at the end of the video, the girl says the thing cost about $44,000 (Yen 5,000,000) to make.
On Wednesday, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00
in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.
That won’t ever happen again.
You may now return to work.
To which I replied-all, “Unless you’re in Europe and it happens again on May 4th.” I was happy in my smart assedness.
Until I saw that Courtney’s British roommate had already replied with the same tidbit and the conversation had been over 30 minutes ago. Let that be a lesson to me: read all email before replying to a group email.
To make up for my email foe paw, I contribute this random and barely related factoid:
In Japan they show the time in the corner of the T.V. screen, and they like to use military time (that was not the factoid). 1 PM is 13:00, 2 PM is 14:00, and so on, but at noon they call it 0:00. With a “beep, beep, Beeeeep,” I might add. Followed by 笑っていいとも (waratte iitomo, a TV show). For late night shows, they just keep on going; midnight is 24:00 (cuz they already used 0:00), then 24:30, 25:00… Wait, there are how many hours in a day now? Those crazy japs.
