Why did I wait for 5 years? I guess I procrastinate too much!
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Originally Posted by siokan
The majority of the dead person are not written in the article.
The article that it seemed was not found though it retrieved with Google.
http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/
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So I gather, according to your post, that the certain article is not found on that website; even though the Virtual Memorials page mentioned that the article was "archived online".
Hmm, this could be true because one of the users from the MDS thread reported:
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Originally Posted by ymat
The one solid piece of information I found regarding Aki's death was an online article on a Tokyo newspaper website containing Japanese text, which I could not read, and a black and white school photo of a young girl closely resembling a Aki. I used AltaVista's BabelFish and the dates and general information seemed to indicate that it was the article posted on her Virtual-Memorials page. This article has since been properly translated by someone, but the original online version is no longer available.
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I just gotta wonder, why did they remove it? Is it really normal for such websites (e.g. tokyo-np or any other Japanese newspapers) to remove some articles (especially suicide-related ones) on thier websites?
And if it's true that old articles aren't free to investigate, then I'll be willing to make a payment.