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Well, it’s not really Chinese, but Ancient Japanese Secret just wouldn’t have been as good a headline, now would it?

In what is just another check mark in the laundry list of why Japan is the looniest country on Earth (see Rice Babies, cucumber flavored Pepsi, eye lash wigs, and love hotels (ed. note: OK.. Mrs. Dr. Death and me have actually shacked up in one of these while we were living in Japan)), the crazy Japanese folks are dying by the load by inhaling laundry detergent in an attempt to rid their life of grime.

According to local media reports, more than 60 people have committed suicide across Japan in the last month by mixing detergent and other chemicals, and inhaling the hydrogen sulfide gas that results.

Earlier this month, police in Japan had asked Internet service providers to take down the recipe for the detergent mix. Even before the spate of recent suicides, Japan had one of the highest rates of suicide in the world.

I don’t get the high number of suicides in a country that offers TV shows featuring competitive farting, this human tetris game, getting your nuts smacked, and gigantic obstacle courses. Competitive farting? Does it get any better than that, other than midget bowling? Of course, the other side of that is that Japanese porn is a huge blob of gigantic pixelism, designed to hide the fact that Japanese men are hung like fruit bats.