Miyazakikn comments

Eh, police probably didn't intervene because they expected him to eventually clean it up himself. You know, they were probably saying "Be a good big boy and clean it up yourself. You're not going to like it if we end up cleaning it."

Yang Yong Said:It's tragic that Miura chose to take his own life, rather than face up to his responsibilities as a human being for the execution-style murder of his own wife some 27 years ago. Prosecutors both in L.A. and Japan felt that there was sufficient evidence, both circumstantial substantially large insurance policies taken out on his wife, Kazumi - and material -including testimony from a Japanese woman with whom Miura was having an a affair who was asked by Miura to murder his wife.By most observers' estimation, the man got away with murder for 27 years, and regardless of what may be thought by conspiracy theorists with disdain and distrust for the very legal system that allows them to have conversations like this unimpeded, the justice system had a legitimate and strong enough case against Miura to bring him to trial - and likely convict him.Stereotype-tinted interpretations of the "Zen of Japanese Suicide" aside, Miura's death more closely fits another growing trend in the cultural fabric of suicide in Japan, namely that of literally escaping from perceived hardship, something with which Japanese society is still struggling to get a handle on. Miura chose a path of least resistance, and took a coward's way out, furthers cementing the image that suicide in the fact of wrongdoing is acceptable. His cowardice leaves any hope for closure in his wife's murder impossible to satisfy. For that, I and other posters, here I suspect, are hard pressed to feel too much sympathy for him. I say: Try to find something out about this: first of all, the possibility that he killed his wife "executions style" is not set in concrete, so you can't be sure. It's possible that he had someone else carry out the attack, and a very small chance he didn't have anything to do it. Also your belief that Japanese people used to take their lives for an "easy way out" is wrong: they did it because they believed that it was better to die than to be dishonored as prisoners. I am Japanese and thus probably know about current affairs more than you, so don't try to pretend to be an expert on everything Japanese. So I can say that he didn't do it out of cowardice, it was probably out of shame if he actually commited the crime.