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…”
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.