Japan gripped by suicide epidemic

[felixthecat]

Japan gripped by suicide epidemic

(pssss it's been going on for more than 10 years as a problem ...)

By Leo Lewis in Tokyo

Times Online June 19, 2008

Japanese professionals in their thirties are killing themselves at unprecedented rates, as the nation struggles with a runaway suicide epidemic.

Newly published figures show that 30,093 people took their own lives in 2007 — a 2.9 per cent increase in a year — leaving the country as the most suicide-prone anywhere in the developed world and rendering government efforts to combat the problem a failure.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4170649.ece

The main reason appears to be depression and dispair.

BTW, the rate of gun ownership is one of the worlds lowest. Again, it's not the object. When one wants to kill themself or another, the human mind will find a way.

When you see no point to your life, suicide seems like a reasonable option. It is not. It is the cowards way out.

The solution?

The Way, the Truth, and the Life. As always.

John.14:6

[6] Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

[jadeeyes]

I read this on the news page. It's such a tragedy. I wonder if any of these peope committing suicide give any thought to the consequences for their spouses, children and other loved ones they leave behind.

[No2Flesh]

Amen to the solution being Jesus.

I wonder how much their overcrowded conditions add to the suicide rate, being such a small place with so many people.

I get very tired of the crowded city in a short amount of time.

127 million people on land the size of CA. Tokyo is the biggest city in the world at 35 million (metro, there are nearly 9 million in Tokyo itself)

"Much of Japan is extremely mountainous and almost the entire population lives on only one-sixth of the total land area. Of all the world's major nations, the Japanese have the highest population density per square mile of habitable land."

"Japan's population density is 339 persons per square kilometer according to the United Nations World Populations Prospects Report as of July 2005."

[FaithContender]

I've heard that the culture there is even more fast-paced than in NYC. Very sad.:ohno

[Frostie7]

There was a video floating around on YouTube recently of 4 young Japanese girls around 15 years of age who made a pact to commit suicide together. They went to the roof of a skyscraper in Tokyo, setup a camera, took their shoes off, sat down on the edge of the roof and silently leapt to their death...................no explanation, nothing as to why. Very sad.

[imfree]

Wow. Very sad. Obviously the enemy's influence there is strong. Seems very demonic to me. Jesus is the only answer this and any problem.

[NewLifeinHim]

A girl that went to highschool with me came from Japan. she told me how it's so overcrowded and fast-paced, so stressful and with this cultural setting of "try to be number 1 among all the number 1s" people just become so overwhelmed they breakdown and go crazy.

So sad.

[funmudder]

There was a video floating around on YouTube recently of 4 young Japanese girls around 15 years of age who made a pact to commit suicide together. They went to the roof of a skyscraper in Tokyo, setup a camera, took their shoes off, sat down on the edge of the roof and silently leapt to their death...................no explanation, nothing as to why. Very sad.


that just breaks my heart :ohno

[FaithContender]

There was a video floating around on YouTube recently of 4 young Japanese girls around 15 years of age who made a pact to commit suicide together. They went to the roof of a skyscraper in Tokyo, setup a camera, took their shoes off, sat down on the edge of the roof and silently leapt to their death...................no explanation, nothing as to why. Very sad.

:eek:

[Logicon]

Another cause:
Japan has a shame factor that is involved here as well. Their honor is so fragile that any little thing that shames them puts them over the edge. Look at the unparalled competition among the professionals. It is cut-throat competition. Not to say it isn't other places, but other places don't put their honor to shame if they aren't up to expectations.

Parents put these children in the most expensive kindergarten schools that they can find. They drum it into their little heads that they must be better than anyone else or they will be ashamed. The pressure is inhumane.