Thursday, May 13, 2010

Land of the setting sun

Number of suicides stays above 30,000 for 12th straight year

It's something to their credit, I suppose, that the Japanese government does seem to worry about the suicide rate now. Their rate is very economy sensitive:
The number of suicides in Japan grew sharply in October 2008—a month after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc collapsed, throwing the global economy into a prolonged recession.
The comment by Bobbafett following the article is interesting too.

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