You’ve gotta love Japanese journalism
From today’s Mainichi Daily News:
School girl hit in head with hard object while walking home
KASUKABE, Saitama — A high school girl was hit in the head with a hard object by a man as she was walking home on Thursday night, police said.
The 15-year-old student was coming home from school alone in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture, when a man approached her from behind at about 8:35 p.m. and hit her in the head as she entered the compound of an apartment complex.
She suffered injuries that will require two weeks to heal.
“I was hit with a hard object,” officers quoted the girl as saying.
Wow, talk about lazy reporting. All that’s missing is:
Doctors who treated the girl reported that her injuries were consistent with being hit in the head with a hard object.
And possibly:
Police have announced that they will undertake a thorough search of the area in the vicinity of the attack for hard objects. They also stated that, if apprehended, the assailant would be charged with using a hard object to hit someone in the head.
Unfortunately, the Japanese version of the article isn’t much better, although it does mention that the man ran away after the attack.
Talk about a scoop!
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Such dull news get published? How boring can Saitama be?!
What’s next? “Chuugakusei (13) boy’s chari was stolen”?
Comment by Oscar — 5/14/2006 @ 5:35 am
Jeff, You are very right. I spent a seemingly interminable time working at one of the other major Japanese papers here in Tokyo and was utterly despondent at the total lack of interest in quality. Vested interests and the office hierarchy are all the matter, and that applies equally to the non-Japanese staff masquerading as journalists there.
It was a thoroughly depressing time and an experience which I would not contemplate repeating.
Comment by JML — 5/15/2006 @ 7:41 pm
Oscar: I think the general policy among the media here is if it involves schoolgirls in any way, print it!
For example:
Schoolgirl prostitution
Schoolgirl poisoning
Schoolgirl gang rape
Schoolgirl air guitar
Schoolgirl STDs
Schoolgirl panties
Schoolgirl self-harm
Schoolgirl sex slave
Schoolgirl murder
And so on.
JML: Yikes, it sounds like you had an incredibly negative experience working there. I would imagine that you probably have tons of interesting stories that you could tell about your time there, though. I hope you’ve since moved on to greener pastures.
Comment by jeff — 5/19/2006 @ 11:24 am
But were there any hard objects involved?
Comment by an englishman — 8/24/2006 @ 9:35 am
This absolutely cracked me up. You are a good blogger, and really should spend more time blogging - for your readers.
Comment by John Scott — 12/23/2006 @ 10:42 pm