Topping more than 30,000 a year for all of this century, Japan’s suicide rate is now the second highest in the world, trailing only Sri Lanka.
With over 100 Japanese a day taking their own lives, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is doing its utmost to keep people alive, conducting a series of projects aimed at getting the number of suicides below 22,000 within five years.
Nowhere is the suicide dilemma as obvious in Japan as in the Tohoku Region’s Akita Prefecture, which has the dubious honor of having been home to the greatest number of suicide victims in the country every year for the past decade…
“Spring and autumn, when the farming business is busiest, are really dangerous times. That’s when old people are left alone when everybody else goes out to work in the fields and it’s the most likely time for them to commit suicide…”
lol - Mainichi, the news rag.
it's true
"The suicide rate per 100,000 people was about 20 until 1997," said Nishijima, "but rose to 26.1 persons in 1998, slightly below Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, which have the world's highest suicide rate, and Russia, Hungary and Slovenia where the suicide rate is 30 per 100,000 people."
http://www.theforeigner-japan.com/archives/200304/news.htm
http://www.easterwood.org/hmmn/archives/000096.html
Getting lost on a hike in Aokigahara might be the last thing you ever do.
Popularly known the "sea of trees," this sprawling, 3,000-hectare primeval forest on Mount Fuji's northern slope might do justice to a Grimm Brothers fairy tale. Or perhaps a Stephen King thriller.
Here, at elevations of 800 to 1,400 meters, lush vegetation grows from spiracles formed by Fuji's ancient eruptions. Dense mists swirl over a labyrinthine landscape. Above, a canopy of twisted trees blots out the sky; below, iron deposits interfere with compass readings.
Little wonder, then, that people come here seeking death.
Seicho Matsumoto's 1960 mystery novel "Nami no To (Tower of Waves)," helped transform Aokigahara into one of Japan's best-known suicide meccas, notes Aera. Publication of "The Complete Suicide Manual" in 1993 further boosted its popularity among those desiring an exotic setting in which to end their lives
As an instrument of suicide, a train, even one not of the bullet variety, can deliver an end not only swift and final, but spectacularly public, immediately affecting the lives of thousands, thus fulfilling any candidate's wish to make a powerful last statement. There's nothing unusual about finding bodies in Aokigahara. The lush and sprawling forest nestled at the foot of Mount Fuji has long been one of the
most popular places in Japan for suicides.
http://forum.japantoday.com/Suicide_Perception:_Japan_versus_USA/m_16443/tm.htm
What rubs me the wrong way are the explanations.
"Harsh winters blamed for Akita's high suicide rate" Huh?
"sea of trees... lush vegetation... Little wonder, then, that people come here seeking death." What?
Where is the intense social pressure? Where is the "dishonor so great that death is preferred"?
I never quite understood the whole suicide angle for free peoples, outside of individuals with clinical depression.
If life is so bad, just walk away. It's a better alternative to death.
Japan is too small to really walk away anywhere to.
And nobody would really want to emigrate to, say, Korea.
Say what? How hard is it to disappear in a population of several hundred million? The point isn't to go somewhere new; the point is to ditch all responsibilities completely.
> just walk away
What if you can't just walk away? You can't hide or run forever.
I think you could safely move to the other side of Tokyo, and people would have a hard time finding you.
There's a lot of people in Tokyo...
Sometimes it's not specific kinds of people but people in general.
But then you would have to pack, and unpack, and all that trouble. It'd be easier to just kill yourself.
A left family will be lonely.
Yeah, damn idiot suiciders.
I would think that suicide rates go up once there are established methods of suicide.
>>18
Yeah the article >>6 links to mentions trains being efficient and fast method of suicide:
>"[Trains]...can deliver an end not only swift and final, but spectacularly public, immediately affecting the lives of thousands, thus fulfilling any candidate's wish to make a powerful last statement"
It's almost like an advertisement,
"For all your suicide needs, Shinkansen is here!"
man....theyre...lazy? so they just dont feel like living anymore?! that seems so very very very wrong....
oh my god, i've known about it just now although i'm a japanese.
that's too sad.
Some Japanese youth cut their wrists some times.
It's not rare recently, and this rate has been going up these days so much, i think.
Japanese people call it "wrist cut".
They do it not to die, but to feel confortable when they are panicked.
oh my god, i've known about it just now although i'm a japanese.
that's too sad.
Some Japanese youth cut their wrists some times.
It's not rare recently, and this rate has been going up these days so much, i think.
Japanese people call it "wrist cut".
They do it not to die, but to feel confortable when they are panicked.
oh my god, i've known about it just now although i'm a japanese.
that's too sad.
Some Japanese youth cut their wrists some times.
It's not rare recently, and this rate has been going up these days so much, i think.
Japanese people call it "wrist cut".
They do it not to die, but to feel confortable when they are panicked.
oh my god, i've known about it just now although i'm a japanese.
that's too sad.
Some Japanese youth cut their wrists some times.
It's not rare recently, and this rate has been going up these days so much, i think.
Japanese people call it "wrist cut".
They do it not to die, but to feel confortable when they are panicked.
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...I wish they'd realize that there's more to life than successes and failures. It's a short ride, make the most of it.
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I think the people Japan live a little to hard. I wonder why the Zen teachings of Buddhism never gained wide acceptance or cultural influence.
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>>36
Zen?
japanese people are not Buddists.that is only for selemony.
almost japanese people dont have their god.
japanese people's heart is bushido.
but America have crush japanese heart and culture from after WW2.
so japanese dont have how to live and kill himselves.
To be or not to be,It,s the plobrem.
>>42
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>>42
laugh out loudly / laughing out loud / lots of laugh
use google.
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http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7002732182
Suicide Deaths A Growing Trend In Japan
"Police in Japan say nine people in two groups have been found asphyxiated in sealed cars, in the latest cases of group suicides that have surged in Japan recently.
Authorities say six bodies - five men and one woman in their 20s - were discovered in a car in Chichibu, about 50-miles northwest of Tokyo.
Officials say three charcoal burners were still smoking in the car when the bodies were found, and the windows had been sealed with tape. Authorities thought the six met over the Internet before dying together in a wooded area."
what happened to jumping into volcanoes?
>>39
Buddism rather promotes a suicide.
The doctorine of Zen in Japan is that you must do everything you should do, maybe including a suicide. Then you may find an universal truth from your experiences. Moreover, this Zen doctorine has contributed to technological developments in Japan.
Since Bushido was made from the neo-confucianism with many modifications and also Nazi-Shintoism was influenced by neo-confucianism, what US destoried was this neo-confucianism in Japan. Neo-confucianism from China was newer religion in Japan. Thus, you can say that the Japan just back to previous religional situation.
wasn't there something called the "Sea of Trees" near the base of mt. Fuji where a lot of people go to suicide?