Japan down (suicide up)

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About Sharp Increase in Suicides in Japan
The deaths of Japanese people by traffic accidents were 8,326 last year. However, suicide deaths are exceeding traffic accidents deaths in Japan.
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The 30-percent of young Japanese workers quit their jobs within a year. Life is too tough for them. They just give up on going through this tough life."

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Life is too tough in Japan?

Internet Suicides Plague Japan
Young People Make Death Pacts With Strangers [url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37332-2003Aug23.html]
Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, August 24, 2003]
TOKYO -- Glued to a computer screen in his north Tokyo apartment, the stocky, part-time sushi delivery man spent weeks searching the recesses of the Internet. Going simply by the handle "Murata," the 28-year-old surfed for online companions harboring his same dark interest: the desire to die. ...

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While we're on the subject of Japanese offing themselves I decided to submit some kamikaze images.

The culture of suicide, encapsulated by the honorable hara-kiri rite of the ancient samurai, is nothing new here. But even by Japanese standards, there has been a staggering jump in suicides, to 32,143 last year, compared with 21,346 in 1990, the beginning of Japan's economic slide. The current suicide rate -- 25.2 suicides per 100,000 people -- is about double that of the United States.

Double the US suicide rate! Fucked gaijin? More like fucked nihonjin.