More than 30,000 suicides in Japan in 2007
Date: Jul 21, 2008 9:54 AM
06/21/2008 09:27 JAPAN
More than 30,000 suicides in Japan in 2007
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Recently released police figures show that last year 33,093 people committed suicide
in Japan. It was the tenth consecutive year in which the suicide rate topped the
30,000 mark. Increasingly people use pesticides to poison themselves.

Tokyo (AsiaNews) – Over 33,000 people took their lives in Japan last year, the tenth
consecutive year in which the 30,000 mark was reached, this despite a government
campaign to reduce what is one of the highest suicide rates in the world.

The information comes in a report issued by Japan’s National Police Agency on
Thursday which showed that 33,093 people killed themselves in Japan in 2007-the
second-largest number on record after 34,427 in 2003-mostly because of debt, family
problems, depression and other health issues.

Police point the finger at the new methods of suicide that have appeared in the
last three years.In addition to hanging and ritual disembowelment, which are somewhat
“accepted” in Japanese culture, more and more cases involve inhaling poisonous
gases, prepared with ordinary household detergents, with the Internet providing
how-to instructions to people who want to kill themselves.”This extremely regrettable
situation has been going on for a long time,”
chief government spokesman Nobutaka Machimura said of the data. “It’s a
very hard problem, but we want to do as much as we can,” he added.

Japanese culture does not encourage suicide, but is also does not have any taboos
against it.
If performed honourably, suicide offers people in difficulty a way to cleanse their
conscience.
In many Internet forums young students do complain in fact about gas-induced suicide
because it does not allow the body to remain in a dignified position for when it
is found.

In the last few years the government has acknowledged that suicide (which is covered
under national insurance schemes) is a “serious problem” and seems poised
to do something.
Since January 2002 the Labour Ministry has been handing out a 38-page booklet to
companies with what-to-do instructions to help company executives identify and assist
workers with suicidal tendencies.

However, this step does not appear to have been made much of a difference since
suicide remains one of the leading causes of death in Japan.

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